As Night Falls Quotes

“The shore knows that the waves belong to the ocean, yet it welcomes the waves with an open arm, whether it comes with a gentle rush or crash against it. I was the shore; you were like the waves.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“The memory is ancient, yet, somehow stronger than the night I was last awake. Isn’t that the thing about memories - some rust before time, while some outlive their purpose?”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“Sadly, the hearts glued by friendship are often separated by love.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“Tonight, I want to be the broken girl I am.
Without pretending to be strong all along.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“Trying to divert my mind, I look around the tiny living room. The peach of the faded wall reminds me why I hate the colour so much – it reminds me of this home and many other things. I avert my gaze and it lands on the wrinkled brown curtains with a tiny hole at the bottom. I wonder when was it washed last. The sofa set, the centre table, the diwan, everything needs a replacement. Even the memories.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“People say we should forget our past, but what if our past refuses to forget us? Sometimes, it holds us like a hook, and until we get closure, it refuses to let us off the hook.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“I was good at expressing my ambitions and my desires, my anger, and my joy, but despite that, I failed at expressing my loneliness. I always stood up for what I believed in. But I also wanted to be loved, and the sad truth is that, sometimes, if you are too independent, people believe you don’t need love. You have to pay the price for your independence. You can be right, but being right when you have no one on your side isn’t actually a win.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“The brightest flower in the garden is always the first one to be plucked out, because humans are as destructive as they are progressive. They are unable to appreciate things from afar; they want to own them, not bothered if they destroy them in the process.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“Broken people don’t find other broken people intriguing. They don’t intrude or stare at your fragmented pieces, because they are busy picking up their own.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“I let the moment of illusion take away the sting of reality. But living in illusion is like living in a costly hotel; you must cut down your stay, no matter how much you like it.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“Lying is like running down a slope, it comes faster and easier with every next step… until you fall off the edge.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“That incident stole my words, and sadly, my silence never reached you.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“And so, our secret was sealed. Wrapped in the sheets of the past. Discarded. But in my heart, it breathed, grew, nurtured into a scar.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“I believe, like us, our emotions also age, and sometimes die before we do.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“Whether love will make you or break you depends on whom you fall for, and unfortunately, most people fall for the wrong person.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“I am too ruined for the world.” You said once, and it broke my heart, because you were the purest person I had ever known.
“Or maybe the world is too ruined for you,” I countered.
You closed your eyes, absorbing my words. I saw the impact they had on you, as you whispered, hugging yourself, with a strange mix of pain and relief etched on your face, “I am not ruined.” Something had transformed in you when you finally opened your eyes and said, “I think I am falling in love.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“It was strange, the way I screamed and yet couldn’t hear my own voice. My chaos was so deathly silent.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“Sometimes, finding the truth is like being in a burning aeroplane, you can’t do anything except jump out with the parachute of acceptance. If it opens, you survive. If it doesn’t, you fall to your death; I am falling to my death.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“For most people, childhood merges into adulthood, a phase where you are both - a child as well as an adult. But that wasn’t the case with me; my childhood died an untimely death. Maturity sneaked in before time. There was no overlapping; it was a case of one replacing the other without any forewarning, leaving rough edges instead of a smooth transition.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“It really surprises me how many times the same person can hurt me for the same reason.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“Isn’t that how the world works? The despair of one becomes the joy of another.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“Home is where the heart is, and I don’t know where mine is anymore.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“Changing someone’s core before we can accept them is not love. Is it?”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“The sunset looks so beautiful from here. Doesn’t it?” I asked.
She looked at the setting sun far away with a sad smile. “Isn’t it strange how the world can see beauty in something that is losing itself to darkness?”
I wasn’t sure if it was her husky voice or the depth of her words that pulled me to her.
“What’s wrong with darkness?” I asked, sitting at a distance on the same boulder.
Her deep hazel eyes narrowed on me before she diverted her attention back to the endless sea.
“Probably nothing…” I thought that was it, but after a moment, she added, “as far as it’s not within us.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls

“Have you ever seen a boulder along the ocean? Rock solid, standing tall under the sun, the rain, and the wind. Then one day, a tidal wave hits, and the boulder shatters down into pieces, shocking everyone. What nobody knows is that the boulder had been weak for a long time. Tiny cracks had formed with every lash of the wind, every splash of the wave, every betrayal of destiny. It was already broken inside. The last stroke just disassembled it, shattering it for the world to see.
I am that boulder.”
― Alka Dimri Saklani, As Night Falls