Tabetha Verghese

“to be in the middle distance, and he was not perceptibly”
― Jeffrey Archer, Kane and Abel

“Poets are born knowing the language of angels.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light

“...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

“I’ll wait for you. Come back.
The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now.
It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion.
Waiting.
Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement