Jayram Kumar

“If there is a danger in the human trajectory it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfilment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.”
― Mark Boyle, The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology

“पुस्तक के भीतर मनुष्य के दुख और वेदना का विवरण है। समस्या भी शायद है, किन्तु समाधान नहीं। यह काम दूसरों का है। मैं केवल कहानी लेखक हूं।”
― Vishnu Prabhakar, आवारा मसीहा

“It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can’t answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It’s easy.

And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.…

…In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend to stay at rest; and not every action can be counted on to provoke an equal and opposite reaction. Time, too, is different. It may run in circles, flow backward, skip about from now to then. The very arrangement of molecules is fluid: Tables can be clocks; faces, flowers.

These are facts you find out later, though.

Another odd feature of the parallel universe is that although it is invisible from this side, once you are in it you can easily see the world you came from. Sometimes the world you came from looks huge and menacing, quivering like a vast pile of jelly; at other times it is miniaturized and alluring, a-spin and shining in its orbit. Either way, it can’t be discounted.

Every window on Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted