Sumirti

“How queer, the Hindus don’t feed their cows although they call the cow “mother”!’ Bakha thought.”
― Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable

“...who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension...”
― Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

“How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation, desire, security, welcome and respect. If one were to give an account of all the doors one has closed and opened, of all the doors one would like to re-open, one would have to tell the story of one's entire life.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space