Vishal Khatri

“All the hardships I have endured were merely rehearsals to prepare me for this devastating pain.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.”
― James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

“all forms of vitality are forms of velocity, and no wonder a growing child desires to out-Nature Nature by filling a minimum stretch of time with a maximum of spatial enjoyment. Innermost in man is the spiritual pleasure derivable from the possibilities of outtugging and outrunning gravity, of overcoming or re-enacting the earth's pull.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

“The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany