Adya Pandey

“If someone burns out your eye
I will take your socket
and use it for an ashtray.”
― Anne Sexton, Transformations

“No one can tell how God worketh. His ways are very mysterious. It may be that the things which we call evil are good, and the things which we call good are evil. There is no knowledge of anything. We must needs submit to everything, for God is very strong. He breaketh in pieces the strong together with the weak, for He regardeth not any man.”
― Oscar Wilde, Salomé

“He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.”
― Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

“Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die.”
― J.D. Salinger, Teddy