Ankit Sethi

“He said hi to her almost every day, all upbeat and faux-happy, and she said hi back, indifferently, but that was it. He didn’t imagine that she remembered their kissing—but of course he could not forget.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“(Oscar’s moms had bought their house with double shifts at her two jobs. Ybón bought hers with double shifts too, but in a window in Amsterdam.)”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it. Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I’d simply been on a long vacation. “Have you found someone to share your heart with?” he asked. “Are you giving to your community? “Are you at peace with yourself? “Are you trying to be as human as you can be?” I squirmed, wanting to show I had been grappling deeply with such questions. What happened to me? I once promised myself”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old,”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending