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

“... the problem with being honest, he said, is that you're slow to realize that other people can lie.”
― Rachel Cusk, Transit

“You could spend your whole life’, she said, ‘trying to trace events back to your own mistakes.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline