Prateek Gupta

“He regretted only one thing: that he had not met her sooner, that he had not known her every day of his life.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

“Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

“With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

“We don't create our feelings; they simply come to us, and we have to accept them. The trick is, to welcome them.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Hygge / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living