Ritu Jain

“I have been incredibly lucky," he said. "Lucky in my life. Oh, I know some people would not say so. They'd say I hadn't stuck with anything, or that I hadn't made any money. They'd say I wasted that time when I was down-and-out. But that's not true.
"I heard the call," he said, raising his eyebrows, half smiling at himself. "Seriously. I did. I heard the call to get out of the box. Out of the got-to-do-something-big box. Out of the ego box.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”
― James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin

“आसान नहीं था इस तरह अपनी जड़ें छोड़ कर चल देना। और उस पर ये भी पता नहीं था। कहाँ और कैसे बीजे जायेंगे। बीजे जायेंगे भी या नहीं। पेड़ से टूटी शाख़ों को अक्सर देखा था, धूप में सूखते, टूटते और फिर गर्द में रुल जाते ! !”
― Gulzar, दो लोग [Do Log]

“Being a stranger was like being dead,
and brought to mind how, in a book he had read
that most folks misunderstood one common state:
The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.”
― David Rakoff, Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish