Saurav Gupta

“I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it. In a world that increasingly obsesses over the gods of power, money and fame, a journalist and a writer must remain detached, like a bird on a rail, watching, noting, probing, commenting but never joining. In short, an outsider.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

“The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land . . . it surprised me . . . I thought I had forgotten about this land. But I hadn’t. . . . Maybe Afghanistan hadn’t forgotten me either.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“She looked great in tight jeans and short skirts, she looked great in anything or nothing, really, but for the moment she wanted no one to notice her.”
― John Grisham, The Runaway Jury