Suryam Gupta

“After all, when we had all the books we needed, we still insisted on finding
the highest cliff to jump off. But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge.
And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. Books
are to remind us what asses and fools we are."
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury”
― Ray Bradbury

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove