Muskan

“No one could ever look quite so merry as Peter, and the loveliest of gurgles was his laugh. He had his first laugh still.”
― J.M. Barrie

“This city was our common ground, I want to tell Kaiz. Not simply its soil, nor its salt or tides, not lines on any map, nor buildings and streets. Something else entirely. An image, a dream, an idea that beguiled both of us: a magical place with chaos in its code, where our stories collided briefly. That romance with the city he carries with him wherever he goes. What it means to me, though, goes beyond what we had in common, it can’t be packed up and transported tidily. Mumbai for me is two people who moved from small coastal towns to this metropolis by the sea and made it their home. My home. And that is how the city is different for the two of us: for him both Mumbai and home were abstractions. Abstractions are at once more fragile and more hardy than reality.”
― Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

“Don't have a mother", Peter said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.”
― J. M. Barrie

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan