Preity Kaur > Preity's Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“she died.i survived
because i survived.i die everyday.”
― Ravinder Singh, I Too Had a Love Story

“Things didn't work between the two of them, because they loved the same person. He loved her and she loved herself”
― Ravinder Singh, Can Love Happen Twice?

“someday you might be sad, when you might wish to talk to me but i might not able to do so”
― Ravinder Singh, I Too Had a Love Story

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“I cannot live without reading.”
― Aidan Chambers, This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
― Vikram Chandra

“because some things
sometimes

aren't ours to hold,

but just beautiful
to listen to.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

“i want to be
in love with you

the same way
i am in
love with the moon

with the light
shining
out of its soul.”
― Sanober Khan

“When it comes
to love
do not ever
settle
for anything
less than magical.”
― Sanober Khan

“sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me.”
― Sanober Khan

“Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?”
― Akhil Sharma

“I dream a dream that won't let me sleep. and yet I can't let it go either. Hope & fears are playing a tug-of-war, and I'm the rope in between.”
― Jyoti Arora

“It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.”
― Jyoti Arora, Dream's Sake

“If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive him'"
"Forgive him?" my father asked.
"I think she was referring to the drunk driver who killed her."
Wow.
My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love and tolerance.
She wanted us to forgive Gerald, the dumb-ass Spokane Indian alcoholic who ran her over and killed her.
I think My Dad wanted to go find Gerald and beat him to death.
I think my mother would have helped him.
I think I would have helped him, too.
But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer.
Even dead, she was a better person than us.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“We only know how to lose and be lost.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian