Ishmeet Kaur

“My hope is that literature can replace religion as the source of our ethics, without ceasing to be a pleasurable study and pursuit in its own right”
― Christopher Hitchens

“That is the only way to get a kettle to boil up the river. If it sees that you are waiting for it and are anxious, it will never even sing. You have to go away and begin your meal, as if you were not going to have any tea at all. You must not even look round at it. Then you will soon hear it sputtering away, mad to be made into tea.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path—all they do is trip you up.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions