Rohit

“Fitzjames had once asked him how he could approach life-threatening peril and minor annoyances with the same mildness and he’d shrugged. ‘It doesn’t improve my mood to catastrophise, so I don’t.’ ‘And what about hope? Have you ever been in love, Graham?’ Fitzjames had asked. ‘Ever lived for the bestowment of a fair smile?’ ‘Ah, love, life’s greatest catastrophe.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. “What if …” “If only …” “I wonder what would have …” You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”
― Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“I suppose if you switch on your lights and boil your kettle with energy provided by a nuclear power station, you don’t spend much time reflecting on the fact that the atom had originally been split to kill cities.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood