Shruti Sharma

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“MEELEE’S AWAY (after Waley)     Meelee’s away in Lima.     No one breeds flowers in my head. Of course, women do breed flowers in my head     but not like Meelee’s—     So fragile, so pale.”
― Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert

“But one can acquire a taste for love as for loneliness or ugliness as for saintliness. Each a special way of going down.”
― Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami