All The Things We Cannot Say Novels & Stories

Hamein pata chal gaya hai ki hamari gair-maujoodgi mein aap ke saath kya hota hai. (Because it means someone is trying to understand your life. Inaayat, my child, there are things I need to tell you; things that might cause you pain. But it is no longer possible for me to keep them hidden. I know everything now. I know what happens to you in my absence.)

the question "I can't promise anything if you don't say all your sentences clearly!" "I hope.. you stay alive and breathe" I said in a low voice, even I'm sure he couldn't hear what I just said. I smiled sadly while shaking my head. It's so sad when you can't say whatever you want to say. "Then I'll say goodbye first"

“I can’t do that, Lyra.” I stared at him. “What do you mean you can’t do that?” “Because it doesn’t work that way.” “Then make it work!” I snapped. “You’re clearly capable of impossible things, so fix it!” “I can’t. It can't be undone. You have to learn to be okay with this.”

Filled one with water. Then held it out to him. He looked at it for a second before taking it. “Thanks.” He only drank half before setting it down. “I suck at this.” “At what?” “Talking.” “I noticed.” That earned the tiniest smile. It barely lasted a second. “I don’t even know where I’d start.” “You don’t have to.” He frowned. “What do you mean?” “You don’t always have to explain everything.” I leaned against the counter beside him. “Sometimes people don’t need answers.”

" But it won't get to us, because we love each other." I scratched the sides of my head.I had this nagging feeling at the back of my mind that what she was asking of, though it seems impossible but it felt like something would go wrong that day . " We can't do that Zayna." "Why ?" "Because everyone knows that's the location, it just days to our bonding ceremony. We can't possibly do that now." "We can tell the media to —" I turned away, too angry to listen to her and walked back into the room and sat on the couch .

Of all the blows I could weather, of all the losses I could take, this is not one of them. This. Cannot. Happen.

Something in my chest twisted. "We cannot change what has happened," I started, scanning the room. "But we can change what will. We should not allow ourselves dwell on a past we cannot change because, quite frankly, it won't change anything. We spent years, centuries, blinded by hate, despising ourselves for our perceived 'differences'."

I could not quite identify if it's guilt, perhaps, or fear. “I understand, Mom. I just need space at the moment”. Her voice was gentle, very delicate, and yet there was steel in it. I nodded, but my heart knitted. “Space,” I repeated. “ I know but you must keep in mind that concealing things does not make them go away.,Sometimes the most difficult things of all are the things we must come to know”. She smiled at me a little.

Lucrezia asks frustratingly. ‘Because I can’t Lucrezia. I CAN’T. Those things that you saw, those were just the tip of an iceberg. If I were to tell you about this things, I wouldn’t be able to keep the hard truths from you. You don’t have to know all this things that I can handle myself. There are just truths that someone couldn’t handle.’ I could only stare at her with gritted teeth as I thought of the words I couldn’t say out loud. “I trust you, Lucrezia,” I could only whisper those pathetic words to her.

In life, we all have this desires that we cannot get in this lifetime. It’s as if you’re going to despise everything you just have for that thing but the world still won’t give it to you. That’s what they knew and that’s what’s visible in everyone’s eyes. We tend to focus on the things that we couldn’t have and wasn’t able to see the situation underlying through it. Because the truth is, there are things in our lives that we don’t ask for but are willing to give. There are things that we did not even wait for but came spontaneously.