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“With trembling eyes, Like a caged bird, From behind the picket-fence, She watched you go.”
― Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala

“While the bhikshu Views her navel And she His handsome face, Crows lick clean Both ladle and alms bowl.”
― Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala

“Though the wide world’s filled With beautiful women, Her left side compares Only with her right.”
― Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
― Margaret Atwood

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

“When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale