I'd be staring at you and thinking, I should ask, I should ask, I should ask; do you want to be in a stable monogamous relationship for the rest of your life?

One of the fundamental rights of mankind should be that of wearing as many or as few clothes as one likes inside one's own home.

We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who'd just smoked a cigarette et cetra.
Another list. The things we loved: strong coffee, Matisse, Rumi, summer rain, bathing together, Tom Hanks, rice pancakes, Cafe Sunrise, black-and-white photographs, the first quiet moments after you wake up in the morning.

Once i watched you wake up, you had the same frown. "When one gets up, there is a moment when everything looks odd and strange.

When she found a place of her own
and packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him, and quoted in his ear,
"He married a woman to stop her getting away, Now she’s there all day.

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.