Nushtya

“He felt the chill of her secrecy, numbing him, like a poison spreading quickly through his veins.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Call me Dolores. Like they do in the stories.”
― Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire