Aanchal

“सामने आए मेरे, देखा मुझे, बात भी की
मुस्कुराए भी, पुरानी किसी पहचान की ख़ातिर

कल का अख़बार था, बस देख लिया, रख भी दिया

English Translation-
Met me, saw me, spoke with me
Smiled as well, for the sake of an old relationship

Yesterday's newspaper, seen and put aside”
― Gulzar, Selected Poems

“The past was always there, lurking in the corners, winking at you when you thought you'd moved on, hanging on to your organs from the inside.”
― Marjan Kamali , The Stationery Shop

“When you face your fear, you become familiar with it and familiarity makes it lose its meaning, loosen its grip—fear ceases to be fear.”
― Gulzar, Half a Rupee: Stories

“She would not have understood, then, that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in the Stationery Shop, always. She and Bahman were one, and she and Walter were united. Kyle was her soul and Marigold would never die.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop