67 Quotes by Kiran Manral

Religion stays with you long after you have lost faith, buried somewhere in your subconscious, waiting to rise and take over your need to turn over your cares to a higher power who could bring forward resolution.

It would be difficult to explain how her mind sometimes twisted in on itself, like Kekule’s snake and sometimes swallowed its tail.

She dared not speak about the voices in her head, they had been quiet for a long while now. Speaking about them might tempt them to start screaming to be let out again.

I had come to this city because I wantedto disappear into its amorphous multitudes of people who didn’t know me. I wanted to be seen only when I chose to be seen.Cities allowed you that, they took you in like quicksand and spat you out if they found you indigestible.

They were tied to each other by tenuous bonds that perhaps only death would break.

It was the stretch and give of the lycra. And the deep blue, invitingly deep, the deep blue of sleep she longed for, blank and intense, and dissolving everything that would make her toss and turn endlessly through the night.

It felt like whatever the issue was, it was being repeated by spectral beings who were taking sides.

Heer laughed again, wave upon wave of laughter that hit the eardrums and broke into a scatter of happiness around the room.

Wasn't hate merely love flipped over onto its back, kicking and squealing for attention, the angst of unrequited emotion that would not be denied?