Lekshmi Mridula

“Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

“He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“The dedication of passwords was the new fellowship of marriage. To each other, couples had become furtive asterisks”
― Manu Joseph, Serious Men

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus