Elma Chowdhury

“He suddenly found that the thing he had set out to prove had proved something quite different. Human nature had outmaneuvered him. For if she would not desert a friend, neither could he. •”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.”
― Winston Graham, Demelza

“The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and—and to love in return.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life