Piya Chakraborty

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Nostalgia was diagnosed at a time when art and science had not yet entirely severed their umbilical ties and when the mind and body—internal and external well-being—were treated together. This was a diagnosis of a poetic science—and we should not smile condescendingly on the diligent Swiss doctors. Our progeny well might poeticize depression and see it as a metaphor for a global atmospheric condition, immune to treatment with Prozac.”
― Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom