Tahir Khokhar

“Mrs. Yeobright spoke to him as one in a mesmeric sleep. “'Tis a long way home, my child, and we shall not get there till evening.”
“I shall,” said her small companion. “I am going to play marnels afore supper, and we go to supper at six o'clock, because Father comes home. Does your father come home at six too?”
“No, he never comes; nor my son either, nor anybody.”
“What have made you so down? Have you seen a ooser?”
“I have seen what's worse—a woman's face looking at me through a windowpane.”
“Is that a bad sight?”
“Yes. It is always a bad sight to see a woman looking out at a weary wayfarer and not letting her in.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“I swear, you are frightening me!" said Dantes. "Is the world full of tigers and crocodiles then?"
"Yes, except that the tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“Youth is the flower of which love is the fruit;
Happy the gatherer who picks it after watching it slowly mature.”
― Alexandre Dumas‎