Quotes from Anita Nair

Grief can have its own weightage. What is worse? The loss of a parent or one's own child?

How can adults expect forgiveness of children?It is an adult emotion. It is not a child's natural instinct to make compromises on behalf of a parent.

I was so drunk on my feelings for him that all I wanted to do was be with him. Please him. Show him in a thousand ways how much I loved him. Everything else was unimportant.

When you get to a certain age, nothing matters. You only want to cling to your serenity and leave the dreaming and storming for those with steaming blood in their veins. Emotions are for the young; the elderly have no use for them.

who looked like she chewed on jasmines and spat out nails.

Only those who have been truly afraid can understand the crippling hold it can have on you.

This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.

Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.