Shankari Giri

“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloudcover.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“There is no month in the whole year, in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August. Spring has many beauties and May is a fresh and blooming month, but the charms of this time of year are enhanced by their contrast with the winter season. August has no such advantage.”
― Dickens Charles

“and occasionally a startled hare scoured along the ground, with the speed of the shadows thrown by the light clouds which swept across a sunny landscape like a passing breath of summer.”
― Dickens Charles

“Each member of the family shipwrecked on their own island of grief.”
― Jenny Colgan, Sunrise by the Sea