Aabha Sharma

“She believed in God; and the gods. It was the same thing, logic didn’t come into it. You just believed, you did puja to the idols, you asked them for favours and guidance. Occasionally you visited a temple or got hold of a Brahmin to perform certain rituals. You went to a guru and sat at his feet. All that embedded you in a way of being called Hinduism. You”
― M.G. Vassanji, A Delhi Obsession: A Novel

“But we simply must get home. Dinner will be waiting for us,’ said Mme Hennebeau, quite beside herself and maddened by fear. ‘On top of everything these beastly workers have chosen the very day that I am entertaining guests. Really! And then they expect to be treated better!”
― Émile Zola, Germinal

“But he wounded me and insulted my heart. I – I do not love him, because I can love only that which is magnanimous, which understands me, which is noble;”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,” was his mildly cadaverous reply.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby; the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street