THE SONG OF ACHILLES || Madeline Miller

I want to love you with all my heart.

But somedays I wish to be loved too.

Art is life, then it is also true that life must become art

—Geisha by Liza Crihfield Dalby

I hate you because I love you.

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

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

Teri meri nazrein hi iane hain sara jo majra

— Besharam Si Nazrein

I hated you for a long time. From the time I was little, I used to think that I didn't belong in such a miserable little place, that I was someone who deserved to be in more comfortable circumstances. I felt it was unfair for you to treat me as you did. My classmates all seemed to be living happy, satisfying lives. Kids whose gifts and talents were far inferior to mine were having much kore fun than I was every day. I used to seriously wish that you were not my father. I imagined that this had to he some mistake; you couldn't possibly be my real father; there couldn't be any blood relationship.

—Tengo

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84, Book 2

You can just be there. To listen. To talk. To cheer him up if he's having a bad day. And on the bad days, you can ask what you can do to make things easier. Standing by his side, even when things are hard. But also knowing that...sometimes people need more support than one person can give. That's love, darling.

— Heartstopper, Alice Oseman

Word deceive me, as I drown in the depths of your moonlight eyes.

The feminine urge to watch Pride and Prejudice(2005) the movie, instead of reading the novel.