Meera

“A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting.”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines

“There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the character and circumstances of the murdered person. Because the victim was the kind of person he or she was, therefore was he or she murdered! Until we can understand fully and completely exactly what kind of a person [she] was, we shall not be able to see clearly exactly the kind of person who murdered her. From that spring the necessity of our questions.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words: A Memoir