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“For she acted exactly as she pleased, laughed at his strictures against her behaviour, her friends, his lectures on 'respectability'. She was the first woman in his existence who had a life of her own, who did things simply because they pleased her, who argued, who asserted herself. There was only one role he was equipped to play which was to resist, to the bitter end, this encroachment as he saw it on his authority, his manhood. And bitter it became.”
― Olive Senior, Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories

“To the girl who keeps looking at me from the opposite terrace. You are charming and pretty.

And you are looking cute right now while listening to songs in your phone and shaking your body to the music beats.”
― Avijeet Das

“Bright yellow lemons twinkled in the twilight sun on a terrace tree, and far beyond my window, San Francisco lay, flat like a pastel toy.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“But how could he have, when women themselves had suddenly gone insane, were rejecting the direction, the protection, that their menfolk offered them, were recklessly plunging off on their own into unknown and unspeakable depths?”
― Olive Senior, Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories

“She kept on looking at me sitting on a chair in her terrace. And I was fascinated by the look in her eyes!”
― Avijeet Das

“To start, planters large enough to host quick growing shrubbery work best on terraces but think about how much light your outside space receives.
Try foliage in shady spots and grasses in areas that are scorched by the wind.
Once established, greenery should also provide an extra layer of shelter to protect when you're sitting outside with a morning coffee.
Light sources are the final, crucial addition to coorie gardens - as they are in most ideas relating to the concept.
If your outside space has a pagoda or loggia, roof-hung lighting creates a beguiling grotto effect.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way