"People don't change, they come closer and closer to who they really are."

"She stares at it for several moments before taking it out from underneath the plastic film that covers it. Then she holds it with the affection of a mother for her new-born child, tender and loving; Preeti's eyes soften briefly just for that moment. The lava of hurt makes way into her throat, setting ablaze all that she has held within. As memories meet sentience, the apartment echoes with her muffled cries. The photograph, a silent spectator, drenches in her grief as the tears start their descent."

"That night it did not rain as much in the sky as it did in his heart."

"Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from."

"How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?"

"If not towards his case to give him glimpses of what could be a happy future, it stayed back at least to warrant her happiness, stayed back with the pain that strangely didn't hurt anymore."

"All they do is warm their seats for their long tenures and eventually even their seats get dilapidated with the amount of money they hog in illegally and the only way it comes out is by tilting their huge pot-bellied frames to one side and emitting poisonous gases that not only depreciate their beloved seats but also the nation as a whole and then they shout 'Global Warming.' Hallelujah!"

"Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world."

"Trust is the base for all relations. If it breaks, then it's not easy to rejoin. It's very easy to say 'I don't trust you', but the pain these words cause is immense."

"Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships."

"I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you."

"Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her."

"He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become."

"My trust in you was like the small child's; who, when thrown in the air, expects to be caught, but you dropped me down, and not a moan escaped my lips."

"I didn't know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance."

"The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did."

"It was as if the rare joy that had formed in my heart was replaced by a pale shadow threatening to engulf me at that very moment. Victory didn't matter now. She did!"

"I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water."

"Life goes on... with or without you."

"It was like watching a movie being played on the blank screen of his mind; the only difference was that he did not get bored, no matter how many times he watched it."

"Love?' he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it."

"We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours."

"Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories...when that happens, it isn't just the loss of one life, it's the loss of two lives - one who found another world, perhaps...and one who is left behind."

"As he turns around and her eyes meet his, she lets go off the breath that she had been holding back. All the words she had practised to say when the moment arrived, dissolve at the tip of her tongue. All the things she wanted him to know escape her in the thick blanket of nostalgia that wraps itself around her."

"Why crawl like a caterpillar when you have the wings to be a butterfly?"

"The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone."

"How strange it is that the house of these hedonic stalwarts is filled with all the luxuries of life, right from plasma televisions to Swiss bank cheque books. So how will they notice the tonnes of food grains rotting in the northern belt?"

"When you love someone, you become immune to the hurt they cause you. You don't love hoping to get something in return, you love because you have to. In its extreme form, it is a need to give, not a need to get."

"I fell, she laughed. I fell hard, she laughed harder. Seeing that I kept falling till I fell in love."

"Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present."

"That's what I'm trying, sir, getting my life."

"There is not much left to see in this world if one sees her once."

"His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding."

"In every laugh, he hears her, in every tear, he sees her. Not a mere reflection, the complete 'her'."

"What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over the mysterious forces of love? Which sword could shatter the impenetrable armour of desire?"

"Her melodious laughter sounded like the distant tinkling of soft bells and he stored the sound in her temple- his heart."

"But cocks aren't supposed to lay eggs... Sahil said, trying to untangle himself. "...they're supposed to fertilise them."

"Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world.Hold me in thy arms of hope, for the truth of separation can rest tonight."

"It's love when someone can touch you without using their hands."

"Sometimes we don't have a choice in where we come from, but we can definitely choose where we go from there."

"I want to be the 'WHY' behind your happiness."

"The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you."

"Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence may appear to be a mere fallacy to the minds of some, and by the time they realise what hit them, they would already be down and dead."

"Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?"

"A minute teaches me sixty different ways to think about you."

"Beneath her curls, I forget the world,With a mere gaze she raises my hopes of gold. Love is as much in her heart as in mine,But she doesn't say it, her punishment so divine."

"A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths."

"He stopped his act to take a snapshot of that instant he would so treasure- her delightful laughter that could make him do anything, anything at all, in the world and beyond!"

"Her fragrance blew him off and his body followed steps he had never learnt in his life."

"I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others."