Nikhil Kumar

“One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Portable Nietzsche

“I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
― Reinaldo Arenas