Heema Shirvaikar

“Every night was a night of limitless possibility expired, of a life forfeited, of a foreclosed opportunity to expand, explore, risk, hope, and live. These were my thoughts as I tried falling back asleep. Inside my head, where I lived, wars were breaking out, valleys flooding, forests catching fire, oceans breaching the land, and storms dragging it all to the bottom of the sea, with only a few days or weeks remaining before the entire world and everything sweet and surprising we'd done with it went against the vast backdrop of the universe.”
― Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

“I have a stalker, a beautiful one: the sunset. Every day she’s there, watching me, whether I watch her or not.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos