Abhinav Sharma

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“I am not the only one who sometimes thinks I came from the pages of a book my father wrote.

Maybe it’s like that for all boys of a certain —or uncertain— age: We feel as though there are no choices we’d made through all those miles and miles behind us that hadn’t been scripted by our fathers, and that our futures are only a matter of flipping the next page that was written ahead of us.

I am not the only one who’s ever been trapped inside a book.”
― Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles

“I mean, we’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention. In some ways, this is getting far afield. I mean, we are—as far as we know—the only part of the universe that’s self-conscious. We could even be the universe’s form of consciousness.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention