Kausambhi

“I'm talking about how we - and I mean here the "we" of people who have experienced some kind of trauma, which I think is a very large category indeed - how we manage the serious burden that we carry, how we contain it, what spent fuel pool or dry cask storage we improvise for material that is even now still leaking its lethal isotopes.”
― Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful, and then you actually talk to them, and five minutes later they're dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think 'not bad, they're okay', and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it, and they just they turn into something so beautiful...”
― Amy Pond Doctor Who series

“Shame had entered the garden, making him more painfully estranged from his own body”
― Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise