"O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: He saved others, himself he cannot save!"

“Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.”

“You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”

Source : Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.128, Random House

“Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.”

“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”

Source : "Fables (Book VIII)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

“In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.”

“Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see.”

“Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.”

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.”