Akshay Dasgupta

“We are bound by the secrets we share.”
― Zoe Heller, What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

“What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Those who are made can be unmade.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero