Nandini

“[t]here ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. It’s all part of the same thing.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“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

“The women watched the men, watched to see whether the break had come at last. The women stood silently and watched. And where a number of men gathered together, the fear went from their faces, and anger took its place. And the women sighed with relief, for they knew it was all right—the break had not come; and the break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.”
― 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