Praniya

“To work your way forward when you are permanently lost means, yes, to be exhausted and adrift, a stranger in a strange land. But... it also means living in a state of endless discovery. The world unfurls itself anew each day with dawn's first cold breath on the city. You re-encounter what you are: lonely likely a body with a gift for burning.”
― Molly McCully Brown, Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

“Love to him would have felt more like the pain of longing rather than joying union”
― Philippa Perry, The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]

“But for another few minutes at least, we were
safe, and we kept dancing under the starlit sky.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

“Never quite understand what I was meant to settle for instead. That was the way it was. You could never ask why. You have to work it out in between the gaps, in the silence, between each careful mouthful of chewing Sunday dinner or run your finger tips along the wall paper and underneath the aging drawn liner in the bedrooms.

Like that time I introduced her to Alfie, "Well that's fine Ena, if that's who you settle for" she said in the kitchen on the morning of my wedding with a faint scent of betrayal. Through I could never understand how I could I have disappointment her so much if I never was shown another way.”
― Mona Arshi, Somebody Loves You