SPARKED
by yashika vahi
“It’s like your heart is in a million pieces and you’re doing everything you can not to show it, everything you can to be strong, but then a tear falls from your eye, and you just don’t wanna keep it in anymore. You’re tired. You’re broken."
- Sparked, p 171, Yashika Vahi
"you know, there’s always a part of us that we feel is the best to face people. Whenever we’re around people, we feel like we should act a particular way so that they like us, and that is actually the perfect part of us. The one in which we’re on our best behavior; the one in which we act like someone we’re not. We don’t even like that part of us, and that’s the truth. No one’s perfect because no one likes to be. We just act like it to be loved by others. But what we don’t realize is that we don’t care about what people think. We just care about what the people we love think. And if they really love us, they’re not gonna stop loving us just because we’re acting like our normal, weird, goofy selves, right?”
- Sparked, p 63, Yashika Vahi
"I can’t think clearly; I can’t focus. I have these whispers in my ears. I see things, and my mind is so full of thoughts that it’s really tough to choose one. It’s just so crowded and… I don’t know how to un-crowd it. I don’t know how to focus. I don’t know what to do. I can’t think about only one thing, and it makes my head ache."
- Sparked, p 74. Yashika Vahi
Sparked is a ya fiction high school drama novel that consists of the pov of seven teenagers going through a lot in their life. From family issues to body insecurities, sexual assault, anxiety, depression, self-harm and many other mental health problems, this book focuses on the journey of these teenagers as some of them heal from their pain and as some of them fall into destructive coping methods like drugs, alcohol, cutting etc. If you were raised in a toxic household or were suffering a lot mentally at some point, chances are this book is for you!
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