"What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?"
- Ashim Shanker
"Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison."
"I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had engaged in as a participant, but to which I had, nevertheless, grow..."
"Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own special privilege a certain unique destiny not afforded with equal measure to other..."
"A bracing wind swirls about the boy and alights gently upon his shoulder to gape frightfully at droplets of fate joined infirmly to a sweep of atmospheric and lunar forces far beyond their capabilitie..."
"Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence."
"The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers"
"Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed."
"At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?"
"Here in Alpha City, we have a common saying: “What we call ‘sky’ is merely a figment of our narrative.” The most dreamy-eyed among us seem to adorn themselves and their aspirations in that proverb and..."