Ashok Krishna

“in his opinion, said Pa Sigvald, and if he was asked where it came from, he answered that it probably came from grief, grieving over something, or just grief, and in the music the grief could lighten and become soaring and the soaring could become happiness and joy, so therefore music was needed, therefore he had to play, and some people had something left of this grief and that’s why there were many who enjoyed listening to the playing, that’s how it was, because the music lifted their life and gave it height”
― Jon Fosse, Trilogía

“In an era where women undress their outfits & give their bodies so carelessly, become the rare wild woman that undresses her mind and soul & knows the worth of what she has to offer.”
― Nikki Rowe

“We have an enemy whom we love.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink