SHUBHAM

“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“the descent was going to be more difficult than the ascent.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Paths of Glory

“This was laughable, of course, but that’s always the way with totalitarian regimes. Language gets turned on its head. Serfdom is freedom. Repression is liberation. A police state is a democratic republic. And we were “the masters of our destiny.” And if we begged to differ, we were dead.”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

“We attempt to conceal ourselves, Emily, but the truth is we do not entirely want to be concealed. We want to be found.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon