It had been
months since I had been there: crossed that busy road through the impatient halt
of vehicles to the other side, breathed the sweet smell of freshly baked
muffins rolling out from Flurry’s kitchen, sang along the songs played upon by
vendors selling cassettes and CD’s on the footpath and that is just when
walking with the tide of people, I had caught her sun kissed face; smiling at
her own reflection on the granite wall and since then she...
Quotes Box
"I have known music to be her timeless reverberation in a forlorn corner of my soul; just when life was closing down upon me with its pangs of haunting silence."
"Hope is the point the 'world within' comes to an equilibrium with the 'world around'."
"The cold that my body feels can be comforted by pullovers of our choices.
It is the winter that comes back each year, inevitably; is how we are connected on the face of time. A sweet suffering of forever..."

"My poverty, I know, was glamorous because trading you, my love, for a better life is outright heinous."
"Love was the day when she drank and I felt quenched."
"Life, ever since, had been one gripping tale. Your happening gave it a genre."
"Want is the soul's desire. Need, the mind's crave. Love, thus, I believe, is a bit of both."
"Art is how you lie to the world without ever feeling sinned."
"Sorrow is true and beyond the powers of healing, when you can taste the oceans on your lips."
© Sobhan Pramanik
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The Night in her Days
The Night in her Days
~ Sobhan Pramanik |
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 |
Stories from the streets of Kolkata
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Very Short Stories
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