Lavanya Naithani

“You are in every line I have ever read.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher