We judge us by our names.
Raubin Chaudhary.
“All your jewels are mine to plunder.”
“Your faith will abandon you in blink of an eye.”
“He hid in the crowd, she hid in herself.”
“For her last gasp was a story in itself.”
“Her love was old but her methods were original.”
“You can stay and fight or you can run and repent.”
“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”
“A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another ...”
“People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes theyre carried away by the wind.”
“Young man, names are powerful things. You dont just go around using them for no reason.”
“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”
“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”
“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”