Aadya Dubey

“Queens go to advisors for advice, not permission.”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Psalm of Storms and Silence

“This was an adequate enough performance, as improvisations go. The only problem was that my entire education, everything I had ever been told or had told myself, insisted that the production was never meant to be improvised: I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no “meaning” beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience. In what would probably be the middle of my life I wanted still to believe in the narrative and in the narrative’s intelligibility, but to know that one could change the sense with every cut was to begin to perceive the experience as rather more electrical than ethical.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album: Essays

“एक दूसरे के आने और मनाने के इन्तज़ार में दोनों बहुत दूर चले”
― Ravish Kumar, Ishq mein shahar hona

“But that's summer for you. Summer's like walking down a road just like this one, heading towards both light and dark. Because summer isn't just a merry tale. Because there's no merry tale without darkness.”
― Ali Smith, Summer