Nandini

“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

“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

“That was the problem with human failings – they were often more visible to others than to those whom they afflicted.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“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