Ashutosh Chandekar

“Some days, I listen to that clock ticking in the hallway. Then I think of all the ticks, all the minutes, all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without you. And I can’t breathe then, like someone’s stepping on my heart. I get so weak. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Rationality was returning to deal with the mess that emotions had created.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect

“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North