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  • #1
    Kiran Desai
    “Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss.”
    Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

  • #2
    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #3
    Kiran Desai
    “His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg for mercy.”
    Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

  • #4
    Kiran Desai
    “But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?”
    Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
    tags: fate

  • #5
    Mitch Albom
    “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
    Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

  • #6
    Bill Watterson
    “Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #7
    Bill Watterson
    “You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #8
    Bill Watterson
    “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
    Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue

  • #9
    Bill Watterson
    “I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #10
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

  • #11
    Bill Watterson
    “In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #12
    Bill Watterson
    “There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #13
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Until recently, I didn’t think that humans could choose
    loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

  • #14
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #16
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #17
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #18
    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #19
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #20
    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #21
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

  • #22
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Kids can be hurtful sometimes. They believe if you happen to be an adult, nothing can possibly hurt you.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

  • #23
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #26
    Susanna Clarke
    “Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
    Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

  • #27
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

  • #29
    Munshi Premchand
    “लिखते तो वह लोग हैं, जिनके अंदर कुछ दर्द है, अनुराग है, लगन है, विचार है। जिन्होंने धन और भोग-विलास को जीवन का लक्ष्य बना लिया, वह क्या लिखेंगे? क”
    Munshi Premchand, गोदान [Godan]



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