Sapna

“He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“What are we but our stories?”
― James Patterson, Sam's Letters to Jennifer

“I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight”
― Nirad C. Chaudhuri