Maithili Padukone

“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I was skeptical about soulmates, but could believe in bookmates, two beings bound by a passion for reading.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom