Arjun K.

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too — that's just the way things work.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi

“And then, as we grew into young women, we realised it was not love, but marriage that was the destiny waiting for us.”
― Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence

“Everything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful enough to try to fix it … But maybe that’s the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Desire: Vintage Minis