Sagar Verma

“नहीं, मेरे जीवन की कोई बात गुप्त नहीं है। गुप्त वे बातें रखी जाती हैं, जो अनुचित होती हैं। गुप्त रखना भय का द्योतक है, और भयभीत होना मनुष्य के अपराधी होने का द्योतक है। मैं जो करता हूँ, उसे उचित समझता हूँ, इसलिए उसे कभी गुप्त नहीं रखता।”
― Bhagwati Charan Verma, चित्रलेखा

“The Count’s assertion had seemed so axiomatic that he had not prepared an elaboration.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing oneself to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind.… That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“But as the Countess Rostov liked to remark: If patience wasn’t so easily tested, then it would hardly be a virtue. . . .”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow