Pratiksha

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis