Chiththarthan Nagarajan

“If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“In life you didn't have to explain if you didn't want to. Not because there was no audience: there was, and one habitually thirsty for motive at that. It was just that they didn't have any rights; they paid any box-office money to your life.”
― Julian Barnes

“You know you have reached the very bottom of the social food chain when you detect in a rich person’s voice that he is merely addressing himself and that, although the words he is uttering may be, technically, destined to you, he does not even begin to imagine that you might be capable of understanding them.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“His words felt like running a hand under cold water after burning it on the stove. The pain might be smoothed while the water runs, but as soon as you turn off the faucet, the throbbing continues.”
― Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept