Meda Lakkh

“Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.”
― Louise Glück

“It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Inspector General

“There was something about him where he stood all by himself under the trees and the stars, on the edge of the streetlight’s glow in the darkness, that was symbolic of many men and women, not alone in this Sac Prairie, but in all the Sac Prairies of the world, something which spoke, out of that pathetic, ludicrous figure, of the spiritual isolation of so many people, something which made the thoughtful onlooker to wonder what thin line divided him from that other, knowing perhaps that the distance of chance or Providence was less great than the few steps separating one from the other in that darkness.”
― August Derleth, Walden West

“Do not be a magician - be magic!”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers