“How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?”
― Amitav Ghosh
“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”
― V.S. Naipaul
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
“I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane’s name on it…”
― Suzanne Collins
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth
“… What is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.”
― Kabir
“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats
“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”
― Mary Oliver
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen
“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.”
― Vikram Seth