Nithya Narayanan

“He felt as though his heart had been buried deep beneath a pile of dirty linen, and now, with every gust of wind, the layers were flying away one after the other, causing his heart to lighten and return to normal.”
― Jeyamohan, White Elephant: A Novel

“everything was once something else: nothing goes away.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Land

“I knew what I did not know, and I knew that I wanted to know it, but I did not know how to know it.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

“The sensation is akin to a sudden immersion in cold water on a hot day—a bodily shift, a sense of complete alteration or release, the passing from one element into another. The word “relief” passes across his mind, like the shadow of a cloud on a landscape. More than anything, he is aware of a curious sense of cessation somewhere within him, as if a rumbling battle in which he has long been engaged has come to its weary end, and he and his opponent are at last laying down their arms and calling off their troops.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Land