Aabha Sharma

“Would you have abandoned a girl who came to you on her own, would you have thrown in her face a shameless jeer at her weak, foolish heart? Would you have looked after her? Would you have understood that she was all alone, that she didn’t know how to take care of herself, that she didn’t know how to protect herself from loving you, that it wasn’t her fault, that, finally, it wasn’t her fault … that she had done nothing! … Oh, my God, my God! …”
― 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

“At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,” was his mildly cadaverous reply.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby; the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street