Lauren D

“To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando