2 Quotes by Nilanjana Roy

You leave the heaviness of the ground behind, because here there is only the sky and then, if we could keep flying long enough, the stars.

The darkness may seem empty and vast, but my whiskers say it is criss-crossed with the paths of the birds—can you not feel them? High up, the rough drumbeat of the cheels carves broad highways above the clouds; over our heads, across the trees, you can trace the soaring songlines of the bulbuls, the trails left by the sharp swift sorties of the parakeets.