Sen Roy

“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

“to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.”
― Susan Sontag

“We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.”
― Anchee Min

“But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love