Nandini

“One’s just supposed to conform. I know what they’d like, they’d like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Carol

“She envied him. She envied him his faith that there would always be a place, a home, a job, someone else for him. She envied him that attitude. She almost resented his having it.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Carol

“Everything could always be worse,’ she would say, ‘and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.’ She”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“There is no arguing with a mood; it can be changed by some fortunate event, or by a change in our bodily condition, but it cannot be changed by argument. I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by means of any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action. If your child is ill, you may be unhappy, but you will not feel that all in vanity; you will feel that restoring of the child to health is a matter to be attended to regardless of the question whether there is ultimate value in human life or not.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness