Shakun Beetan

“But I was like a bird caught in a snare. Only, the wires of this snare were made of curiosity and a disobedient heart.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove