Dipankar

“Then they both kept on knifing him against the door with alternate and easy stabs, floating in the dazzling backwater they had found on the other side of fear.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“I didn't do any of what they told me,' she said, 'because the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was all something dirty that shouldn't be done to anybody, much less to the poor man who had the bad luck to marry me.' So she let herself get undressed openly in the lighted bedroom, safe now from all the acquired fears that had ruined her life.
'It was very easy,' she told me, 'because I'd made up my mind to die.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“Death stoops over me.
I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, Haikudikter / Haiku Poems / 俳句

“Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives.”
― Tomas Tranströmer