Sneha Jinturkar

“You have to find something, Officer Dodge. Something that anchors you, something that keeps you looking forward, even on the bad days, when you’re tempted to look back.”
― Lisa Gardner, Alone

“He had always assumed it was a flaw in people, a human failing, that created this need to believe in something beyond the ordinary. Religion existed to control society, to monitor those without the capacity to think things through for themselves, to provide promises and shimmering images in the sky, so that the urges of the masses could be calmed and regulated. What, after all, did the word ‘faith’ connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof?”
― Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

“To do two things at once is to do neither. —Publilius Syrus”
― Jennifer L. Scott, Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris

“So this is how history gets rewritten, she thought. This is how it begins, with exaltation. Now it is not enough for a man merely to have been a man; now the etiquette of grief demands that we change him into a prince, a king. Now the flaws of a man have to be ironed out like creases in a suit, until he is spread out before us as smooth and unblemished as the day he was born.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us