Debojit Dutta

“Now that you're there, where everything is known—tell me:
What else lived in that house besides us?”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“If I were a tree I would be the tree you're seeing
with its open crown, which will keep on growing.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Silvina Ocampo

“Writing is a luxury or, with luck, a rainbow of colors. It is my lifesaver when the water of the river or the sea tries to drag me under. When you want to die you fall in love with yourself, you look for something touching that will save you.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces