Amrithaa

“I don’t really believe any of this, but still I know it. And in knowing it, there is the risk of a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

“You know why farmer always kills fox? Fox can never take just enough. You ever see chicken house after fox comes? Chicken house is nothing but feathers and shit. Feathers and shit everywhere. Fox sees opportunity and loses mind. Fox cannot stop killing. Fox will spend all night burying bodies. More than fox can ever eat. Why? Because fox always goes too far.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

“And because I didn’t have the moral backbone to say, “I don’t know,” I explained the whole thing to her—off the top of my head.”
― Helene Hanff, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

“One of these days I’m going to write a book about living in New York—in a sixteen-story apartment house complete with families, bachelors, career girls, a ninety-year-old Village Idiot and a doorman who can tell you the name and apartment number of every one of the twenty-seven resident dogs. I am so tired of being told what a terrible place New York is to live in by people who don’t live there.”
― Helene Hanff, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street