Aparna Mukerji

“When you're an original it may take time for people to catch on. So keep at it and don't question yourself.”
― Lorin Morgan-Richards

“Stay beautiful and strong
when others try to break your soul,
it's not you
they want,
it's your beauty and art.”
― Christina Strigas, A Book of Chrissyisms

“Actually he never expected much of people, and so he wasn’t upset if they turned out to be shysters or chiselers or crooks. But a few people he trusted absolutely. It was when they betrayed him that he turned to rock.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“Trust me, I know how it stings when someone tells you the truth about yourself. It’s like catching a glimpse of your reflection in a looking glass when you’re not prepared. Intolerable. I was furious when I read your pamphlet—­but only because I knew it was the truth. I’d known it for some time. The reality set in somewhere around the Tropic of Capricorn. When I left you behind at Greenwillow Hall . . . I’d missed out.”
― Tessa Dare, Lord Dashwood Missed Out