Vanya Kaushik

“I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

“Most of all I remember the three of them operating during that time as if they were a single person, sharing a single meal, a single body, a single silence, and a single fear.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”
― John Gillespie MaGee Jr.

“The right words always seemed to come too late.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage