Umesh Rao

“Reading is better than life. Without reading, you’re stuck with life.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“The great ocean, crooning its lullaby with one unceasing melody, lapped the island to sleep with a thousand soft touches of its wave's white hands. The”
― Rabindranath Tagore, 5 Best Short Stories

“Let us not be deceived by hope, because it betrays, or by love, because it grows weary, or by life, because it satiates but does not sate, or even by death, because it brings more than you want and less than you expect.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“But a lot is occurring in your mind—memories resurface as ghosts and imagination descends like a demon. That is why you suffer.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata