Mili Das

“When you’re raised among people who look like you, you never have to explain your differences. I’d never wondered why I looked the way I did because there was no reason to. I was genuinely confused by their questions and struggled to form a reply. Finally, I forced myself to say something, but I barely got a few words out before they erupted in laughter and ran back to tell their friends about the strange new girl. I shrugged and went back to my Corduroy book. It took a few more days of this before I realized what the joke was—my accent.”
― Jayma Anne Montgomery, AlieNation: The Imitated Life

“But Meera wasn't waiting for a Mr. Darcy or a Joe Fox. In fact, she did not want to marry at all. She thought of marriage as a license for two people to have sex and produce babies. Not that she did not believe in love, but the world of matrimony was too small for her. You meet someone, marry him, have a family, and life is over, so she thought.”
― Harrshada Deshpande, Megh: A heartwarming love story of a genius

“She believed in love but not matrimony; she believed in education but not degrees.”
― Harrshada Deshpande, Megh: A heartwarming love story of a genius

“When you do some action for the very first time, you use your conscious mind. You pay attention, exert self-control, and spend much mental resource overall. But if you perform this action repeatedly and over a prolonged period of time, it can then turn into a habit. It becomes so ingrained in your mind that you don’t need to think of how to do it any more. You just do it. You don’t have to consciously recall how to carry out any of these tasks. If you want to walk, you just walk and don’t think of how to move your legs. When you get into your car, you don’t remind yourself how to start the car, how to use the indicators or how to pull over.”
― Vlad Beliavsky, The Pyramid Mind