Saurabh Levin

“She has seen dieback across the West. Aspens are withering. Grazed on by everything with hooves, cut off from rejuvenating fire, whole groves are vanishing. Now she sees a forest, spreading across these mountains since before humans left Africa, giving way to second homes. She sees it in one great glimpse of flashing gold: trees and humans, at war over the land and water and atmosphere. And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies. Ortega y Gasset, On Love”
― Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection

“We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“Everything owns a sound, loud or soft. When sound hits a thing, it comes back an echo.

Mumbi said -Everything sends back a sound, however soft. If you listen to an echo with care, you can tell where it is coming from.

The ear is the eye of the soul. It sorts out the sound and the echo and tells us what makes the sound and where it is coming from”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi