Manan

“The photographs had made him aware how much the street and the buildings meant to him. Like an extended family that he’d taken for granted and ignored, assuming it would always be there. But buildings and roads and spaces were as fragile as human beings, you had to cherish them while you had them.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives
must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“It was strange to be conscious of another person’s existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity; a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful, merely final like an ultimatum. It was important to know that she existed in the world; it was important to think of her, of how she had awakened this morning, of how she moved, with her body still his, now his forever, of what she thought.”
― Anonymous

“But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet