Jyotsna

“And then, one fairy night, May became June.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“No matter how it seems now, I must confess: I loved him. I do not think that I will ever love anyone like that again. And this might be a great relief if I did not also know that, when the knife has fallen, Giovanni, if he feels anything will feel relief.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Încotro merg eu, astfel, om îmbătrânind prea repede, hoit pentru unii, geniu pentru alţii? Nu merg nicăieri altundeva decât către neant, ca toată lumea. Dar mai merg totodată, prin viaţa imediat trăită şi prin actualitatea mea sângerândă, înspre un soi de conştiinţă superioară a ceea ce sunt înainte de a nu mai fi.”
― Marcel Moreau

“Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found...
That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year....
Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat