Mansimar Singh

“This wounded man was Prince Andrew Bolkonski”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“And Princess Mary uttered aloud the caressing word he had said to her on the day of his death. "Dear-est!" she repeated,”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami

“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown,’ said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. ‘Yes sir, a clown,’ he said. ‘There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.’ ‘You got it backwards, Dill,’ said Jem. ‘Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird