Prem

“Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“You have a heart as open as the sky. It is rare, and i am touched.”
― Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart

“He learned not to mind the silences.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West