Padma Yokmapa

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I go to seek a great perhaps”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth

“I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.”
― John Green

“What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What "grace" might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way?”
― Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes