Rachna

“The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, they all understand the importance of that first espresso.”
― Upamanyu Chatterjee, Lorenzo Searches For The Meaning Of Life

“The longer the human soul swims in that pool of faith, soaking in the effulgence of its own dreams and longings, the more its need for rationality recedes, its very preoccupation with reality. Excuses are made for every frustration or impediment that doesn’t quite merge into the perfect blueprint of miraculous resolution already etched into one’s hopes and prayers: thus, there’s never any scope for disappointment. The person becomes blind to everything but the bewitchment of his own beliefs.”
― Cyrus Mistry, Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer

“But fourteen hundred years of interpreting the Rule has imbued to it a suppleness, an elasticity that allows its adherents to bend, twist and crane their necks with ease, and to smile and nod without feeling guilty or sinful or deserving of a chastising thunderbolt from Heaven”
― Upamanyu Chatterjee, Lorenzo Searches For The Meaning Of Life

“The starting point of history can always be shifted such that one is always instigating, the other always justified in response”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This