Swapna

“Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“He watched the sun rise beyond the grape arbor. In the thin golden light the young leaves and tendrils of the Scuppernong were like Twink Weatherby's hair. He decided that sunrise and sunset both gave him a pleasantly sad feeling. The sunrise brought a wild, free sadness; the sunset, a lonely yet a comforting one. He indulged his agreeable melancholy until the earth under him turned from gray to lavender and then to the color dried corn husks.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

“A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence

“Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi