Madhuri

“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― David Foster Wallace

“I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the sevice. I'm never tempted by God, but I like his trappings.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments