Parul Nigam Quotes & Sayings

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. — Ralph Ellison

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung. — Henry Ward Beecher

I'd seen old Yardley Slickers- the makeup now just a waxy crumble- sell for almost one hundred dollars on the internet. So grown women could smell it again, that chemical, flowery fug. That's how badly people wanted it- to know that their lives had happened, that the person they once had been, still existed inside of them.

There were so many things that returned me. The tang of soy, the smoke in someone's hair, the grassy hills turning blond in June. An arrangement of oaks and boulders could, seen out of the corner of my eye, crack open something in my chest, palms going suddenly slick with adrenaline. — Emma Cline

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,
or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,
farewell cool reason and fair discretion. — Laurence Sterne

If it looks like an alien relic bought at a junk-shop or yard sale where you can hardly remember stopping, you're ready. — Stephen King

The thing with the new world," the tuba had said once, "is it's just horrifically short on elegance. — Emily St. John Mandel

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. — Malcolm Gladwell