Shanmuga Priya

“I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the ground that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal...The world suddenly seems a larger place.”
― Nick Hornby, Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books

“In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“...In the end I value literacy more highly than health; if our two countries were full of fat readers, rather than millions of Victoria Beckhams, then we would all be better off.”
― Nick Hornby, Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”
― Danielle LaPorte