Javed Jilani

“मैं ईसा की तरह सूली पर से यह नहीं कहता - पिता, उन्हें क्षमा कर। वे नहीं जानते वे क्या कर रहे हैं। मैं कहता - पिता, इन्हें हरगिज क्षमा न करना। ये कम्बख्त जानते हैं कि ये क्या कर रहे हैं।”
― Harishankar Parsai, विकलांग श्रद्धा का दौर

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It had been more than a year since the Joker’s conquest of America and we were all still in shock and going through the stages of grief but now we needed to come together and set love and beauty and solidarity and friendship against the monstrous forces that faced us. Humanity was the only answer to the cartoon. I had no plan except love. I hoped another plan might emerge in time but for now there was only holding each other tightly and passing strength to each other, body to body, mouth to mouth, spirit to spirit, me to you.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Golden House

“A trademark of something that works well, the cat body has hardly changed since its inception. Like with today's cats, their digestive systems could handle only flesh. The lesson of the cat is that if you are to become a full-fledged carnivore, you have to commit everything to it. A house cat fed vegetarian food will shrivel and die.”
― Craig Childs, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild