Vipra

“What if pretending to enjoy life is the same as actually enjoying it?”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“He was good at what he did, and that’s why, even now, some people will drive for miles, past an old phone box, past the farm shop and the wooden bus stop, and take the right turn before the bridge, just to speak to an eighty-year-old psychiatrist, long retired.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“He is pretending to eat healthily, which, after a couple of days, he realises is the same as actually eating healthily. An apple is an apple whether you are eating it because you like to take care of yourself or you are eating it to impress a new girlfriend. The nutrients are the same. Chris hasn't had a Snickers since Monday.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“At the heart of my approach to finding the skeletal structure of the Indus Valley languages is my belief that the features of the modern Extended Indus Valley Periphery languages that do not come from Sanskrit and the prakrits are likely to be calques, literal translations of structures that existed in languages that lived in the region before Sanskrit and the prakrits appeared.”
― Peggy Mohan, Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia