Vinayak

“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful. For, by knowledge derived from this science, not only the bulk of the Earth is discovered . . . ; but our very faculties are enlarged with the grandeur of the ideas it conveys, our minds exalted above [their] low contracted prejudices.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“you.
not wanting me.
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself.
thank you.

-the hurt”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“Worse even
than your maddening
song, your silence." -”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems