“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Time is the thief of memory.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman’s got to hold on to.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

Every storm started with just a little drizzling.

I thought I’d begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

I started my life with Rs 5,000.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.