Rupa Quotes

#1. He can't recognize when his own body needs to go to the toilet, but he notices the first night in fifty years his wife is not sleeping beside him."
Rupa shakes her head.
"I don't quite understand it, but that is a powerful love.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#2. This is a girl you can't keep. You aren't allowed to.

Khadija Rupa

#3. Someday, even my existence would be felt.

Khadija Rupa

#4. Only to close these eyes
to sleep in the lap of love
and stay there forever.

Khadija Rupa

#5. I feel the pain - everywhere.

Khadija Rupa

#6. Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places?

Khadija Rupa

#7. But I hope you don't feel the hurt as much as I did. You are too weak and fragile to stand that ache.

Remember, you always will be.

Khadija Rupa

#8. Through my seeking of what is beyond beautiful, of what is intriguing, of what is free from all imperfections and wrongs, I realise my soul is not from here.

I belong to a different place, from a different world, a different existence.

Khadija Rupa

#9. To show you all my scars, is not to tell you that this Dunya would always leave you wounded, and bruised, and on knees, but to show you that see, healing is always possible. Healing is easy. Healing is beautiful.

Khadija Rupa

#10. Please don't tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.

Khadija Rupa

#11. If ever again, someone says to go to the market, where hearts are sold in exchange for melancholy souls, never would I go.

Never would I wait, if ever again someone says - not to.

Khadija Rupa

#12. How could she be someone's mistake?

Khadija Rupa

#13. So many people can be physically light and fit but emotionally heavy and weighed down.

Rupa Mehta

#14. I threw myself so far in your depth that it took me a month to come out and notice I was actually sitting in my room. Nowhere else. Not with you.

Khadija Rupa

#15. There is just one way to get success for me - Live in other's heart.

Anuj Tiwari

#16. The way your curious eyes were chasing mine when I stood in front of you, I knew I had known these eyes before.

Khadija Rupa

#17. The things you learn through your sadness, believe me, these are one of the best kind of lessons.

Happiness can never teach you any of that.

Khadija Rupa

#18. But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.

Khadija Rupa

#19. In that silence, I dream to be.

Khadija Rupa

#20. Where the cheerful children
of unwritten poems,
play all around,
you will find me there.

Khadija Rupa

#21. Do you ever wonder, do you, why I loved you for such a long time, and still didn't really know you?

Khadija Rupa

#22. She was a wonderful teenage girl who had the miraculous power to cure herself from any wound, either physical or mental. With her own salty tears, she would cleanse her raw wounds. And her breaths were given, as though not to breathe but, rather, to fan her sores.

Khadija Rupa

#23. Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don't feel like reading anymore.

Khadija Rupa

#24. There is a sad end I used to live
even before I knew
this is how I was meant to begin.

Khadija Rupa

#25. From all my dreams where you felt everlasting
to all my clothes your words used to wear,
to the old end, to the new beginning,
you have lost me everywhere.

Khadija Rupa

#26. It's a poem, of our love, that doesn't rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.

Khadija Rupa

#27. What about those Promises of yours to never leave me? she asked, stammering too much this time. His cruel smirk was as gut-wrenching as his words - Promises are meant to be broken, sweetheart.

Khadija Rupa

#28. But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments.

Khadija Rupa

#29. May the honey-sweet flute music that flows from Lord Mukunda's lotus mouth fill me with bliss.

Rupa Goswami

#30. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.

Khadija Rupa

#31. My eyes always keep searching,
for something inexpressible,
above the far away sky.

I long to get lost,
inside the evening-twilight.

Silence always tickles me -
in a strange way;

I meet "me"
in the time between
sunset and darkness.

Khadija Rupa