Sahil Handa

“She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“But she's extraordinarily attractive, he thought, as, walking across Trafalgar Square in the direction of the Haymarket, came a young woman who, as she passed Gordon's statue, seemed, Peter Walsh thought (susceptible as he was), to shed veil after veil, until she became the very woman he had always had in mind; young, but stately; merry, but discreet; black, but enchanting.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.”
― John Webster, The White Devil

“I know I can’t drive a truck. And I can’t run a bank. And I can’t count. And I can’t lead a movement. But I can f*ck up your mind.”
― James Baldwin