Abhishek Jamal

“When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.”
― Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

“For my experience as a historian is that more documents survive by chance than by intention.”
― Robert Graves, I, Claudius

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it's just words.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Shuggie heard the nurse say to a male attendant that she thought for sure Agnes was a working girl. “She is not,” said Shuggie, quite proudly. “My mother has never worked a day in her life. She’s far too good-looking for that.” The matted mink coat gave her an air of superiority, and her black strappy heels clacked out a slurred beat on the long marble hallway.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain