Anjali

“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“But increasingly I think it’s because, in one way or another, they do believe in God – they believe in the God that is the deep buried principle of goodness and love underneath everything. Goodness regardless of reward, regardless of our own desires, regardless of whether anyone is watching or anyone will know. If that’s God, then Felix says fine, it’s just a word, it means nothing.…. That most of our attempts throughout human history to describe the difference between right and wrong have been feeble and cruel and unjust, but that the difference still remains – beyond ourselves, beyond each specific culture, beyond every individual person who has ever lived or died. And we spend our lives trying to know that difference and to live by it, trying to love other people instead of hating them, and there is nothing else that matters on the earth.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Faith: ‘that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula