Apratim Mukherjee

“Sometimes," said Kaz, "a proper thief doesn't just take. He leaves something behind.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“If your life can hang from a chewing gum wrapper it can hang from anything in the book. It can hang from a bullet no bigger than a bean, or from a cigarette smoked in bed, or a bad breakfast that causes the doctor to sew the absorbent cotton inside you. From a slick tire tread or the hiccups or from kissing the wrong woman. Life is a rental proposition with no lease. For everybody, tall and short, muscles and fat, white and yellow, rich and poor. I know that now. And it is good to know at a time like this”
― Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel

“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