Binu KG

“The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard."

--Disgrace”
― J.M. Coetzee

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement