Dipesh Mittal

“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.

But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“We must use what we have to invent what we desire.”
― Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

“The world is what it is: those who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
― Sir Vidya Naipaul

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore