Srikanth Mantravadi

“Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.”
― Hanif Kureishi, Midnight all Day

“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

“And if you sat at the dinner table long enough, whether in punishment or in refusal or simply in boredom, you never stopped sitting there. Some part of you sat there all your life.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

“The tragedy of mediocrity is that even mediocre people shake their heads and mull over how standard are falling.
- Serious Men”
― Manu Joseph