Renuka Joshi

“It wasn't much of a plan, and already there had been mistakes.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
― David Nicholls, One Day