"I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which m..."
- Joseph Conrad
"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that end..."
- N.H. Kleinbaum
"Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut..."
- Sanhita Baruah
"There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart,I didn't know why. By the time I made my mind that it was impossible for meto do, there alighted the fear, haunting me with the words that r..."