“God save us from people who mean well.”
― A Suitable Boy
― A Suitable Boy
“I just need some time away to remember why I stay.”
― The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2
― The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2
“Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.”
― Train to Pakistan
― Train to Pakistan
“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
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