Riya

“OK,’ I said, like a complete idiot who fantasizes day in and day out about affection like this but shuts down when actually receiving that affection and says fucking OK.”
― Savannah Brown, The Truth About Keeping Secrets

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five, I was just alive.
But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.”
― A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six