Sebanti Chatterjee

“She leans forward.
Tightens her grip on the pencil.
Lowers her head further.
The words evade her grasp.
Words that have lost lips,
words that have lost tongue and tooth-root,
words that have lost throat and breath remain out of reach.
Like unbodied apparitions, their forms elude touch.”
― Han Kang, Greek Lessons

“Nothing beats kindness,' said the horse. 'It sits quietly beyond all things.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Writing comes out of tension, tension between what's inside and what's outside.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“Do you ever wonder at the strangeness of it?

That our bodies have eyelids and lips,

that they can at times be made to close from the outside,
and at other times to lock fast from within.”
― Han Kang, Greek Lessons