Jeyashree Venkatesan

“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so." And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“A mother at the American Wing fountain hands her child two coins: “One wish for yourself,” she says, “and another, just as big, for someone else.” I have never heard this before and immediately know I will say it to my children one day.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

“Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven