Arun Verma

“It was Inspector Hewitt. “You’ve got goose-bumps,” he said, looking at me attentively. “Best go sit in the car.” He had already reached the far side of the bridge before he turned back. “There’s a blanket in the boot,” he said, and then vanished in the shadows. I felt my temper rising. Here was this man—a man in an ordinary business suit, without so much as a badge on his shoulder—dismissing me from the scene of a crime that I had come to think of as my very own. After all, hadn’t I been the first to discover it? Had Marie Curie been dismissed after discovering polonium? Or radium? Had someone told her to run along? It simply wasn’t fair.”
― Anonymous

“Sometimes, life is like that. One moment. One person. One conversation. And your life is forever enriched.”
― Michael Dillon, Changing Cadence: Meditations on Life, Family and Country from a Leather Bicycle Seat

“Being a novice is safe. When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether or not you are good at it. But when you have done something, have learned how to do it, you are not safe any more. Being an expert opens you up to judgement.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“How could written fiction hope to survive against the might of cinema and television if it didn’t offer something unique, something the other forms couldn’t do?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs