“You cannot stain a black coat”
“If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.”
“The hafts of the tools were stained black with th sweat of us all, our contributions, black and white alike.”
“Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.”
“And Hir replied to her father, ‘As wine-bibbers cannot desert the bottle, as opium-eaters cannot live without opium, so I cannot live without Ranjha. As the stain of mango juice cannot be washed awaj from clothes, so the stain of love cannot be erased when once the heart has fallen a victim. Love is likebaldness. You cannot get rid of it even in twelve years.”
“...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...”