Ravi Singh

“I saw it dissolve into a strangely clear horizon-there, a striated pyramid, stood the extinct volcano, a pain filled, deeply moving sight: permanence.”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“What was I waiting for? For signs and miracles, stars on the firmament..?”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“Letters have time, time costs nothing in these parts-let's return to the melons and peaches of Afghanistan.”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“This sufficed: the overwhelming monument to the man who had not feared the poverty and grandeur of the steppe, so alien to all human measure. I breathed deep and tried, despite all, to salute life...”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey