Jaanaki

“We aren’t angels. Angels couldn’t breathe the air down here. They’d die.”
― James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly

“There is no one but ourselves to blame for our problems: neither God nor any oppressors.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, My Gita

“There was nothing to do but forge ahead, so they mounted horses and wagons, and headed deeper into the mountain, ever leery of the dead soldier’s jacket, of phantom Indians who had taken great pains to hide the place which they sought so hard to find, and of the sporadic eerie rustling of a single tree among many as they descended. Wyn could not help but wonder if some long-dead spirits were trying to warn them away, as they got closer to Whisper Valley…”
― Bobby Underwood, Whisper Valley: A Wild Country Western

“She gave me peace just by looking at her, which might explain why I looked at her for too long, and with too much intensity in my eyes. The way people never look at people anymore. I wanted her in every sense.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time