Swapnil Dixit

“Morning!’ the older man exclaims. ‘Hi,’ the younger man says, slightly dismissively. ‘I’d offer you some coffee, but I suppose you’re still not a coffee drinker?’ the old officer says, as if it were some sort of disability. ‘No,’ the younger man replies, like someone turning down an offer of human flesh.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“The poem Ka wrote during the ensuing silence, without a single pause or missing word, he would later call ‘Heaven’. If he placed it on the ‘Imagination’ axis of the snowflake, far from the centre, right at the top, this was not to suggest that Heaven was the future of which we dream: for Ka, Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

“when they opened their eyes once more, they saw that they had”
― Emma Harper, Unicorns and Their Magic Friends to Make Your child Relax and Sleep All Night Long Avoiding Night Awakenings (Book 1)

“When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Indian Tales