Ishita

“Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

“More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy

“Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“Nobody loses all the time.”
― E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems