Swati

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass