Sumeet Agarwal

“There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”
― Jane Austen

“[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horor from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite [...] in the hope that if we apply all the metaphors of normality, that if we heap them high enough, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state metaphorically.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines

“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.”
― Anaïs Nin

“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without calumny; happiness without anxiety.”
― Secundus the Silent