Aparna Singh

“Nothing irrevocable had yet been spoken, but there was only the barest margin of safety left them; each of them moving delicately along the outskirts of an open question, and, once spoken, such a question—as ‘Do you love me?’—could never be answered or forgotten.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil - rich, fertile soil.
She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.
She could plant a forest inside herself.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Am I the public conscience? Expected always to say in cold words what the rest of them are too arrogant to recognise?”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library