Anjali

“Touring an empty church while a guide whispers facts about its history seems akin to looking at a stuffed eagle instead of watching the live bird in flight. The theatricality of the Mass - the elaborate vestments, the rhythmic Latin chants, the fragrant smoke rising from the centres, the re-enactment of Christ's Last Supper beneath a lifelike, gruesome Crucifix - creates an emotionality that transports the worshippers to a state of ecstasy, in which the Passion of our Lord becomes quite real.”
― Wendy Zomparelli, A Life of Her Own: The Story of Margaret Dashwood

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

“The task of young people is to understand themselves, to observe the world around them, and to determine what kind of adults they wish to be. No one achieves that without making mistakes.”
― Wendy Zomparelli, A Life of Her Own: The Story of Margaret Dashwood

“Although our lives have been different in basically every respect, I do feel in a strange way that we’ve taken different routes to reach similar points, and there’s a lot we recognise in one another.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You