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“And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning?”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie’s concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism, which was defined to refer only to the organized and politically motivated killing of civilians by killers not wearing the uniforms of soldiers. I recognized that if this was to be the single most important priority of our species, then the lives of those of us who lived in lands in which such killers also lived had no meaning except as collateral damage. This, I reasoned, was why America felt justified in bringing so many deaths to Afghanistan and Iraq, and why America felt justified in risking so many more deaths by tacitly using India to pressure Pakistan.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist