Nisha Mitra > Nisha's Quotes

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother...”
― J.K.Rowlings , Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”
― Judith McNaught, Remember When

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
― R. Arnold

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Tell me that we’ll get through tomorrow. Tell me that we’ll survive the war. Tell me—” She swallowed hard. “Tell me that even if I lead us all to ruin, we’ll burn in hell together.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Whatever you had to do to survive, whatever you did from spite or rage or selfishness … I don’t give a damn. You’re here—and you’re perfect. You always were, and you always will be.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“I spent centuries wandering the world, from empires to kingdoms to wastelands, never settling, never stopping—not for one moment. I was always looking toward the horizon, always wondering what waited across the next ocean, over the next mountain. But I think … I think that whole time, all those centuries, I was just looking for you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Dorian looked at the carpet, at all the threads woven together. 'What do I do now?' They were gone: the woman he'd loved--and the man he hated. He met her stare. No calculation, no coldness, no pity in those turquoise eyes. Just unflinching honesty, as there had been from the very start with her. 'What do I do?'

She had to swallow before she said. 'You light up the darkness.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“How can I take away somebody who means the world to someone else? Even if she is my enemy.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“You survived; I survived. We’re together again. I once begged the gods to let me see you — if only for a moment. To see you and know you’d made it. Just once; that was all I ever hoped for.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time."
Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail."
"I was referring to the Bible."
Faukman cringed. "I knew that.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“We might be happy in time. People fell in love every day. Genya and David. Tamar and Nadia. But were they happy? Would they stay that way? Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I’ve never been that comfortable with words—I always think in pictures, express myself with images”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“I was on a quest to help myself. I believe the same is true for most people who go into mental health. We are drawn to this profession because we are damaged—we study psychology to heal ourselves. Whether we are prepared to admit this or not is another question.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“এ এক আলাদা জীবন, যারা ঘরের দেওয়ালের মধ্যে আবদ্ধ থাকিতে ভালোবাসে না, সংসার করা যাদের রক্তে নাই, সেই সব বারমুখো, খাপছাড়া প্রকৃতির মানুষের পক্ষে এমন জীবনই তো কাম্য।”
― Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, আরণ্যক

“এ এক আলাদা জীবন, যারা ঘরের দেওয়ালের মধ্যে আবদ্ধ থাকিতে ভালোবাসে না, সংসার করা যাদের রক্তে নাই, সেই সব বারমুখো, খাপছাড়া প্রকৃতির মানুষের পক্ষে এমন জীবনই তো কাম্য। কলিকাতা হইতে প্রথম আসিয়া এখানকার এই ভীষন নির্জনতা ও সম্পূর্ণ বন্য জীবনযাত্রা কি অসহ্য হইয়াছিল, কিন্তু এখন আমার মনে হয় এই ভাল, এই বর্বর রুক্ষ বন্য প্রকৃতি আমাকে তার স্বাধীনতা ও মুক্তির মন্ত্রে দীক্ষিত করিয়াছে, শহরের খাঁচার মধ্যে আর দাঁড়ে বসিয়া থাকিতে পারিব কি ? এই পথহীন প্রান্তরের শিলাখন্ড ও শাল পলাশের বনের মধ্য দিয়া এই রকম মুক্ত আকাশতলে পরিপূর্ণ জ্যোৎস্নায় হু- হু ঘোড়া ছুটাইয়া চলার আনন্দের সহিত আমি দুনিয়ার কোনো সম্পদ বিনিময় করিতে চাহি না।”
― Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, আরণ্যক

“জ্যোৎস্না আরো ফুটিয়াছে, নক্ষত্রদল জ্যোৎস্নালোকে প্রায় অদৃশ্য, চারিধারে চাহিয়া মনে হয় এ সে পৃথিবী নয় এতদিন যাহাকে জানিতাম, এ স্বপ্নভূমি, এই দিগন্তব্যাপী জ্যোৎস্নায় অপার্থিব জীবেরা এখানে নামে গভীর রাত্রে, তারা তপস্যার বস্তু, কল্পনা ও স্বপ্নের বস্তু, বনের ফুল যারা ভালবাসে না, সুন্দরকে চেনে না, দিগ্বলয়রেখা যাদের কখনো হাতছানি দিয়া ডাকে নাই, তাদের কাছে এ পৃথিবী ধরা দেয় না কোনো কালেই।”
― Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, আরণ্যক

“মূর্খতার দ্বারা যদি স্বরাজ হ'ত তাহলে দেশের ত্রিশ কোটি লোকের মধ্যে ঊনত্রিশ কোটিই তো আকাট্, কোনদিন স্বরাজ হয়ে যেত তবে! মুখ্যু হয়ে থাকলে ভাত আসেনা, - স্বরাজ আসে ?”
― Shibram Chakraborty, বাড়ি থেকে পালিয়ে

“বাবা নামক মরুভূমিতে মা-ই একমাত্র ওয়েসিস।”
― Shibram Chakraborty, বাড়ি থেকে পালিয়ে