Mujtaba J.

“O what we ben! And what we come to!”
― Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker

“If I'd had a man of my own, I'd have followed him . . . down to hell.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

“He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay his life on a balance, the other side of which was weighted with death. He wanted to make his every action, every day, yes, every hour and minute worthy of being measured against the ultimate, which is death.”
― Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

“their heart grew cold
they let their wings down”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho