Aparna

“What did I do? I read books and studied. I listened to my parents and did what they asked me to. Even though, in the end, I never made them happy. I didn’t like myself, and something told me I’d end up alone.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

“If I could run the world, I’d find another way to treat most of these criminals—most of them, not all of them—but we find widespread solutions to widespread problems in this country, so we just build big prisons and stick everyone inside them and, for the most part, forget about them once they’re gone. Noah”
― James Patterson, The Murder House

“I know the skies are vast and deep, an upside-down ocean .”
― A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

“A star does not compete with other stars around it; it just shines.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo