Aishwarya Dhal

“I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you”
― Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi

“... ageing is nothing to be ashamed of

especially when the entire human race is in it together”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.” I”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions