Rachna

“Missing is worse than being killed in action. Missing is a wound that doesn't heal; in it festers hope.”
― 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

“love what being in love with myself is doing to me. i’m watching myself bloom.”
― Shefali Dang, Blush