Language. They don’t say it’s an art for no reason. We string together some words and the melodies start flowing. Inundating the shores of imagination, and discovering the thoughts of wilderness. They don’t equally strike our same chords. Language in itself hence has its own language. But that’s part of its beauty; the complexity unraveled in its simplicity, welcomed to be enjoyed by all. Here are some strings from famous and not so famous literature, which struck a chord with our team.
The volumes they speak will differ depending on the reader, but the depth of these will hopefully resonate with most of you:
1. God, who was but a mirage in thought, a hope with which to inject despair, an imagery in your mind sucked from other minds, those minds which seemed so sure yet still chanted, ‘I believe. Help thou my unbelief.
– Catherine Cookson (The Invitation)
2. My mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.
– Tehmina Durrani (Blasphemy)
3. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
– Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
4. I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.
– John Green (Looking for Alaska)
5. Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all those who live without love.
– J.K Rowling (Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows)
6. I’m so afraid. Because I’m so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening… They only let you this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
– Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)
7. We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.
– Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)
8. No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlett Letter)
9. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.
– Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale)
10. There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there is life, there is hope.
– Stephen Hawking
