Jon Nakapalau

“I was weak, as it was. The cold suddenly gave me acute backache and I took to my bed. Turning over the side I found extremely painful. Finding me in such agony, my friends feared that I would die. Fyjee Bibi ran to the ships doctor and said, "Miss Das is dying!". The doctor was having his meal. He hurriedly got up and rushed to my cabin. However, he found that there was no question of my being given a burial at sea.”
― Sachidananda Mohanty, Literature And Social Reform In Colonial Orissa

“she wasn’t an elf, they’re pointed ears and lace wings and ballet costume. Countess Judy was the Queen of the Fey. Which is a totally different kettle of barracudas,”
― Tom Holt, Earth, Air, Fire and Custard

“Vulnerability is about freeing yourself from the fear of failure,” she says finally.”
― Joe Siple, Charlie Fightmaster and the Search for Perfect Harmony

“What’s the winter for?
To remember love.

— Theodore Roethke, from “Random Undated Notes,” The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke by Allan Seager. (University of Michigan Press August 15, 1991)”
― Theodore Roethke, Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths