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

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

“The wretched people around us do not see what a man has. They only see what he does not have.”
― Perumal Murugan, One Part Woman

“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