Malavi

“We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.”
― Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis

“Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency.”
― Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“Every day you play with the light of the universe.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair