Shubham Nayak

“I suppose I just wonder, why do we do things that we don’t really want to do?”
― Sally Rooney, Color and Light

“Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Why not pause for an eternity where there is reason to pause? Why stay an extra minute when there is reason to leave?”
― Anuradha Roy, All the Lives We Never Lived

“Sometimes I take my glasses off to see differently from other people. Colours and words swim into each other, meanings change on the page. In the distance, everything becomes a pastel blur. There is a kind of restfulness in not seeing well that the clear-sighted will never know.”
― Anuradha Roy, All the Lives We Never Lived