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It is in water’s nature to absorb the void, made jagged with crevices, peaks and other irregular symmetries.
Only a fool would consider the shores of continents, sandbanks and parched patches
the ends to the unbroken surface of water. At best, they are...
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Or mindless chatter. Islands are mindless chatter in a...
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‘When you stand on a ship’s deck and meditate upon the blue-green, it’s the closest you come to staring into infinity,’
‘Standing alone in the face of infinity, it’s not your beliefs but what you have rejected that bothers you.’
The bachelors may keep the world spinning, but it’s the married ones that keep it grounded.
The life of an equal couple in the latitudes of longing and the longitudes of trepidation has hitherto been a rare, undocumented phenomenon—like a whale giving birth in Antarctica or white elephants mating in south Asia.
One cannot judge the natural world by human laws.’
Affection is the sole privilege of stone figurines in temples and caves.
Children born in the aftermath would dismiss their parents’ stories and ancestral myths as tall tales born from the imagination of fools—the same fools who built a lighthouse in one and a half metres of water and went fishing on dry land.
“Faces change. Sometimes, one may not recognize who the real person is because faces are misleading. But love is love. So long as you feel it, you give it and receive it, it is enough. You are connected through the force of love to everyone and everything.
‘O Saki, pour me a goblet of poison,’ Ghazala smiles as she recites the couplet, ‘and I will gladly swallow it.
