Shezadi Noormamode

“It seemed to K. as if at last those people had broken off all relations with him, and as if now in reality he were freer than he had ever been, and at liberty to wait here in this place usually forbidden to him as long as he desired, and had won a freedom such as hardly anybody else had ever succeeded in winning, and as if nobody could dare touch him or drive him away, or even speak to him, but — this conviction was at least equally as strong — as if at the same time there was nothing more senseless, more hopeless, than this freedom, this waiting, this inviolability.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“You misinterpret everything, even the silence.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday