After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Time had changed the magical to mundane

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.