Until it was nothing more than a gray paper moon, hanging in the sky.
1Q84, Haruki Murakami, Book 3
Percy Bysshe Shelley, from “Prometheus Unbound”
I wait for you at night, in the winter and when I am dead.
“Part of me wanted to have a conversation with you, but not before you told me that you were sorry, not before you begged for my forgiveness. But your apology never came, and I’m still waiting.”
— Paula Hawkins, Into the Water
Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
Just want to Live, Laugh, Love. Why is it so hard?!
“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.”
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person."
–Aomame
—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
si vis amari, ama ‘If you wish to be loved, love'
चुपके चुपके रात दिन आँसू बहाना याद हैं
हम को अब तक आशिकी का वो ज़माना याद हैं
I still recall when first I fell in love
The silent tears I shed, all night, all day.
~ Hasrat Mohani, Translated by Ralph Russell
I want to love you with all my heart.
But somedays I wish to be loved too.