“But thats the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You find one, and the other is always around the corner.”

“Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.”

“Love is just like God. Some believe in it, some dont. You can only feel love and that too if you are open to its existence. Likewise, an atheist cannot feel the presence of the divine because his m...”

“We use the word LOVE for camouflaging so many of our emotions. Why cant we use different words to convey different feelings? Why use a word when we dont sincerely mean it?”

“Every war has its martyrs the unsung heroes who sometimes dont even know the rationale behind the war they are fighting. They fight because they are trained to, kill because they are told to and d...”

“An idle mind is a devils workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.”

“A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbi...”

“What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?”

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”

“you are a lover of the wordsa soul mate to the storyeverything becomes a part of youfrom my fingertips to your eyesfrom my heart to yours”

“But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.”

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

“nights and days came and passedand summer and winterand the sun and the windand the rain.and it was good to be a little islanda part of the worldand a world of its ownall surrounded by the bright b...”

“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart...”

“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”