Saurabh Modi

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

“You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before