"Stars Wish Away From Every Which Way To The Center Of My Heart With The Tip Of This Pencil, Constellations

Sometimes it goes very quiet in my heart, so quiet that all I hear is your name.

— Something I'm Waiting to Tell You by Shravya Bhinder

You are my favorite person Dumbass

If you ever unlove me, have the guts to tell it to my face. Otherwise you are a coward.

Sputnik Sweetheart made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at?

— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

इश्क तेरी आंखों में लिखा, पढने दे ज़रा,

हमको भी गालिब होना है,

इन गज़लों सी आँखों में खोना है,

Ishq Teri Aankhon Mein Likha, Padhne De Zaraa

Humko Bhi Ghalib Hona Hai

Inn Gazal’on Si Aankhon Mein Khona Hai

Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.

— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

I seemed to have a crush on you

Even when it's forbidden and you know the truth

I pretend I do not look at you

With fondness and nothing new

Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naïvely think that with their love they can change the men they love.

He's obsessed with her body right now. She likes him like this—kissing every part of her like he's deriving life force from it.

—When I am with you, Durjoy Datta.

His soul rushed out. Carrying the memory that was important. The only memory that was important.

Vedavati.

— War of Lanka, Amish