Maneesha Wickramasinghe

“Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling—something”
― O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

“I still believe that a human being does not die at once, but in a way, we die in pieces; whenever a friend departs, a piece dies, and whenever a lover leaves, a piece dies, and whenever a dream of our dreams is killed, a piece dies, then finally, the greater death arrives, only to see all our pieces long dead, so he picks them up and departs.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“You know the good years when you're in them? Or do you just wait for them until you get ass cancer and realize that the good years came and went? Because there's a feeling that -- you might notice it sometime -- that this feeling that life has slipped through your fingers. Like the future is behind you. Like it's always been behind you.”
― Martin Hart

“Put a girl in
moonlight
and tell only truths
and every man
becomes a poet.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild