Shubham Nayak

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Helen finds it philosophically sustaining that two people who agree on everything can still find so much to say to one another.”
― Sally Rooney, Robbie Brady’s astonishing late goal takes its place in our personal histories

“As a child, I would place my back against one of our trees and feel its reassuring solidity, its immobility. It was not going to move, it would never go anywhere, it was rooted to its spot. For as long as they are alive, trees remain where they are. This is one of life's few certainties. The roots of trees go deep and take many directions, we cannot foresee their subterranean spread any more than we can predict how a child will grow. Beneath the earth, trees live their secret lives, at times going deeper into the ground than up into the sky, entwined below with other trees which appear in no way connected above the ground.”
― Anuradha Roy, All the Lives We Never Lived

“Sometimes I take my glasses off to see differently from other people. Colours and words swim into each other, meanings change on the page. In the distance, everything becomes a pastel blur. There is a kind of restfulness in not seeing well that the clear-sighted will never know.”
― Anuradha Roy, All the Lives We Never Lived