Arpita Kothari

“What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

“Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Don’t save it all for the end. There is every reason not to.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek