A.B

“I say to myself—sometimes, Clov, you must learn to suffer better than that if you want them to weary of punishing you—one day. I say to myself—sometimes, Clov, you must be better than that if you want them to let you go—one day. But I feel too old, and too far, to form new habits. Good, it'll never end, I'll never go.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“You can have all the desire and ache inside you want, but what you really need is a concrete starting point.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“एक बार ये भी लगा कि उस दिन कोई बात अधूरी रह गई। असल में बातें हमेशा अधूरी ही रहती हैं। ऐसा तो कभी होता ही नहीं कि हम बोल पाएँ कि मेरी उससे जिंदगी भर की सारी बातें पूरी हो गईं। हम सभी अपने-अपने हिस्से की अधूरी बातों के साथ ही एक दिन यूँ ही मर जाएँगे।”
― Divya Prakash Dubey, मुसाफिर Cafe

“If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the man.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora