Jeyashree Venkatesan

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger