Aanchal > Aanchal's Quotes

“I had spent the day
friendless, lonely and sad,
a stranger to myself.



After drowning the day
on the sea shore,
I walked back
to my empty house
on the deserted street.



The moment
I opened the door,
the book on my table
flipped its pages
and said:

"Friend,
Where were you
for so long?”
― Gulzar

“When you face your fear, you become familiar with it and familiarity makes it lose its meaning, loosen its grip—fear ceases to be fear.”
― Gulzar, Half a Rupee: Stories

“उम्मीद भी है, घबराहट भी कि अब लोग क्या कहेंगे, और इससे बड़ा डर यह है कहीं ऐसा ना हो कि लोग कुछ भी ना कहें!! गुलज़ार”
― Gulzar, रात पश्मीने की

“Hazaron khwahishen aesi, ke har khwahish pe dam nikle Bahut nikle mere arman, lekin phir bhi kam nikle.”
― Gulzar, Mirza Ghalib

“सामने आए मेरे, देखा मुझे, बात भी की
मुस्कुराए भी, पुरानी किसी पहचान की ख़ातिर

कल का अख़बार था, बस देख लिया, रख भी दिया

English Translation-
Met me, saw me, spoke with me
Smiled as well, for the sake of an old relationship

Yesterday's newspaper, seen and put aside”
― Gulzar, Selected Poems

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
― Rumi

“The past was always there, lurking in the corners, winking at you when you thought you'd moved on, hanging on to your organs from the inside.”
― Marjan Kamali , The Stationery Shop

“She would not have understood, then, that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in the Stationery Shop, always. She and Bahman were one, and she and Walter were united. Kyle was her soul and Marigold would never die.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop