Navya

“Ours is a joint family. We live in the same house - my wife and I, my parents, my uncle and Malati. Malati is my older sister, back home now after having left her husband. It is natural to wonder, I suppose, why the six of us should want to live together. What can I say - it is one of the strengths of families to pretend that they desire what is unavoidable.”
― Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

“Because we all love imperfectly.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about Cuba and Russia and the economy, because beneath the hard structure of words was an abyss of ignorance and not-knowing; and, in a sense, of not wanting to know.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

“he thought that this was how he was going to live life from now on, savouring small pleasures and not looking beyond them for happiness that was more complete.”
― Rose Tremain, The Gustav Sonata