Tamanna

“They were using her feinting body to erase their present and catapult themselves into a fantasy where sex-starved women lay submissive and split open like red, ripe watermelons.”
― Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

“It could be fatal, but at least all anxiety would cease. Because of that, I often rushed towards holocausts with an abandon that caused observers to think of me as courageous. The truth was, I simply wanted an end to uncertainty.”
― Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

“Yanko allowed me to enter a world strange and fanciful. Although I had to cope daily with real and mundane matters, I found that some of the magic of his world stayed around my shoulders.”
― Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

“It was twilight in the garden, the time between day and evening. There was a pale moon in the sky, a forgotten lamp in the room of the dead.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being