Mukesh

“Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness. The girl knew from the outset that he’d always appear mid-scream, and he would not leave.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Why would you want to be with someone if they didn’t change your life?”
― Alejandro Zambra, Bonsai

“You dance through topics like two old friends, finding comfort in a language which is instantly familiar. You create a small world for yourselves, and for you both only, sitting on this sofa, looking out at the world which has a tendency to engulf even the most alive.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Did we fly swiftly toward the stars until our wings tired, and are we descending now into the abyss? Or was Love asleep when he came to us, and did he, when he woke, become angry and decide to punish us? Or did our spirits turn the nights’ breeze into a wind that tore us to pieces and blew us likedust to the depth of the valley?”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings