And I asked her, "how do I make peace with the fact that one day my parents won't be alive?"
"You won't", she said. "But life goes on in times of war too. Peace is not a prerequisite for being alive. You'll learn to not flinch or cry at the mention of their name, and you'll go to work and watch television and cook noodles the way they always made."
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned




















