ananya

part of becoming an artist is learning to create without applause

so i made a pact with myself; if it scares me, i’ll publish it, regardless of the hollow silence it’d fall into.

There’s only two things that continue to fascinate me with their impermanence and confinement of an entire world into something singular, secular, sometimes lonely: hotels and lovers

this distinction between irrational and unreasonable choices cannot carry this moral load

Why should we force children but not adults to act in their self-interests, against their express (but admittedly stupid) wishes?

treating them as if they were devoid of autonomy hampers their becoming fully autonomous adults

Autonomy is the province of full-fledged rational adults, not immature children

Falsehoods I wore