Nandini

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

“Fear the time when the bombs stopped falling while the bombers live - for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died. And fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live - for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“It was all a question of face, she decided: you had to leave room for face to be saved.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“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