Apratim Mukherjee

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O’Connor,”
― Chris Offutt, Out of the Woods

“And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that the bravest and most loyal and loving people in the world seldom have heroic physical characteristics or the auras of saints. In fact, their faces are like those of people whom you might randomly pull out of a supermarket line, their physical makeup so nondescript and unremarkable that it's hard to remember what they look like ten minutes after they walk out of a room.”
― James Lee Burke, A Morning for Flamingos

“Spring comes into Massachusetts with her famous flame. God’s breath warming the winter out of things”
― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

“Books long to be read as we humans long to be loved.”
― Keira Michelle Telford, The Housemistress