Nayantara Goyal

“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
― Emery Allen

“He gave her that last word. He gave her his love. He would think of her almost every day for the rest of his life. Only his presence would he withhold.”
― Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

“Have a purpose. Without a purpose nothing matters.”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

“Music gives me a sense of self-sufficiency and nourishment. I don’t need anyone or anything. I bathe in it as in amniotic fluid; it surrounds and protects me. It’s also stable, ever-available and something I can control - that is, I can reach for it whenever I want. I can also choose music that reflects my mood, or if I want, helps to soothe it…music-seeking offers excitement and tension that I can immediately resolve and a reward I can immediately attain - unlike other tensions in my life and other desired rewards. Music is a source of beauty and meaning outside myself that I can claim as my own without exploring how, in my life, I keep from directly experiencing those qualities. Addiction, in this sense, is the lazy man’s path to transcendence.”
― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction