Koel Ray

“Be it ancient Rome or modern-day America”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“When all is said and done, it is my life.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed, sitting here, alive and in my own home, any more than poor Tom Jenkyn could, swinging in his chains.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

“For it is not always the one that strikes the blow, that is the actual murderer; and Mary was done to death by that unknown gentleman, as surely as if he’d taken the knife and plunged it into her body himself.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace