SUMANTA ROYCHOWDHURY

“before he fell asleep, Molière’s words came to him, strangely comforting: Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“Every time they said goodbye, he’d go home and brood. He was still in love with her – that was a given. But it wasn’t enough. I have to do something, he felt. Passion will get by on its own steam for a time, but it doesn’t last for ever. If we don’t do something drastic our relationship will reach an impasse, and all the passion will be suffocated out of us.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Rumour-mongers are the original fourth estate,”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun