Ekta Kohli

“Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

“If we are to go by what the movies and novels tell us, falling in love just happens. If it is a Hindi movie, you hear a melodious track in the background, the lyrics usually waxing eloquent about the heroine’s beauty, comparing various parts of her anatomy to the moon, stars, the sun—even Fevicol. This is accompanied by the hero gazing at her with the expression of a glutton discovering a six-course banquet consisting of various gastronomical delights. In real life though, falling in love often happens over a period of time. You see someone gorgeous and get attracted strongly. If you strike up a conversation, find each other likable—or intriguing, as the case may be—then you exchange phone numbers or email ids. After a couple of dates, discovering many things and maybe a kiss or something more, depending on how much in resonance your moral compasses are, the magic happens, and wham, you are in love.”
― Preeti Shenoy, Why We Love the Way We Do

“Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd