Aabha Sharma

“Absolutely without stories of any kind! I lived, as they say, on my own, that is, absolutely alone – alone, completely alone – do you understand what it means to be alone?’ ‘But what do you mean by alone? Do you mean you never see anyone?’ ‘Oh, no, of course I see people, but nevertheless I am alone.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“No, my son; Christ did not teach us foolish people to act in such a way. If any one should say an unkind word to you it is better not to answer at all; but if you do reply do it kindly, and his conscience will accuse him, and he will regret his unkindness to you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy

“Today was a sad, rainy day, without a ray of hope, just like my future old age.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Oh, those bourgeois scum! One day they’d stuff ’em with champagne and truffles till their guts burst! ‘We want bread! We want bread!”
― Émile Zola, Germinal