Samruddhi

“Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd