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Yay!!  Day 3... (For the last time: THE THREE RULES 1. Thank the person who nominated you. 2. Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day). 3. Nominate three new bloggers each day.) QUOTE FOR DAY #3  “Oh, here’s a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test? It reads, ‘What’s wrong with this statement?’ And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, ‘What’s wrong with you?”  - Mr. Benedict (Trenton Lee Stewart, 'The Mysterious Benedict Society'.) The Mysterious Benedict Society is one of the most unconventional and heartwarming books one could ever come across. It looks closely at the finer nuances of life and friendship and family, that are often overlooked. The quote above sounds absurd, but then the book is quite quirky in itself. Constance, a three year-old child genius, is my favourite character, and I couldn't find a better end for this challenge than to end it with her.

Phew. Day 2... (For those who don't know: THE THREE RULES 1. Thank the person who nominated you. 2. Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day). 3. Nominate three new bloggers each day.)   QUOTE FOR DAY #2    "...Blind Benny, even with his poor sightless eyes, is the only person who can see with perfect clarity. Because Benny is able to see beyond appearances..." - Woodrow Prater to Gypsy Leemaster (Ruth White, 'Belle Prater's Boy')   Belle Prater's Boy is perhaps the most beautiful book I will ever come across, because of the way it touches lightly, yet effectively, upon strong topics, and moves your heart in ways unimaginable. This quote is one that I hold very close to my heart, since it reminds me not only that I should not judge people by the way they look, but also that there is beauty in people who see the beauty in others, no matter what.   I'd like to nominate the following people for today: Gau...

So, I've been nominated for the 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge by Pallavi Dwivedi (Check her out at https://ultimatelibrophile.wordpress.com/), a fellow Humanities kid at Lilavatibai Podar High School. THE THREE RULES 1. Thank the person who nominated you. 2. Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day). 3. Nominate three new bloggers each day. - Thank you, Pallavi!! :)  - QUOTE FOR DAY #1 "...Krishna touches my hand. If you can call it a hand, these pinpricks of light that are newly coalescing into the shape of fingers and palm. At his touch, something breaks, a chain that was tied to the woman-shape crumpled on the snow below. I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable- but I always was so, only I never knew it! I am beyond name and gender and the imprisoning patterns of ego. And yet for the first time, I'm truly Panchaali. I reach with my other hand for Karna- how surprisingly solid his clasp! Above us our palace awaits, the only on...

The Rain and Me share a strange bond, Sometimes hate, sometimes love. Sometimes just harmony. The Rain and Me share moods as well; When I’m gloomy, she’s sad. When I’m joyous, she’s happy, too. The Rain and Me share the windowsill; While I sit and watch her dance, She rehearses and looks for my appreciation. The Rain and Me share a love for sounds; She finds peace in her gentle patter on the leaves and roofs, And I enjoy the rhythm as my toes tap on the road. The Rain and Me don’t always agree; She sometimes floods the roads when I’d like to walk, And I’m often not in a mood to play with her. But the Rain and Me share a friendship; We are bound together by her drops and my promises, And yet, it isn’t an easy relationship. But we manage, the Rain and Me; With sometimes love, sometimes hate, And sometimes, just harmony.

Shoe Size 12 “I’m not weird, I’m just wired differently.”                                  -‘Dude, I’m An Aspie.’ When you walk in a crowd, do you ever feel as if you are somehow walking on a different path? When you speak with a bunch of people, do you feel as if you don’t quite agree completely to what they have to say, even though everyone else agrees? Do you ever feel as if you belong in a group, and yet not quite? If you do, proceed to the next set of questions: Do you randomly sing to yourself in public places? Do you randomly scribble notes in a textbook? Do you lick off the cream before you eat your biscuit? Do you have a laugh that sounds odd? Do you casually do your dance jig in the middle of the road while you are walking? Do you not care if you wear red polka-dot pants with a fluorescent pink shirt? Do you...

Happy New Year “For last year's words belong to last year's language  And next year's words await another voice.”                                                        ―  T.S. Eliot ( Four Quartets ) Tonight, we come together to celebrate the curtain call of another year. A year that passed by in the blink of an eye, but left a deep impact on our lives. A year full of new beginnings, new endings, new experiences to learn from- to accept and incorporate into our lives. According to Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson, there is a beautiful reason to why the new year is to be a happy one. He says, “Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,  Whispering ‘it will be happier’...” I find his word...

Be True To Yourself. “This above all: To thine own self be true…” - William Shakespeare We are the future, what is to become. We are everyone’s hope, the forthcoming carriers of the world. We are expected to be mentally competent, physically fit and emotionally strong. We must be able to cope with the world, show our true potential and push the limit to and then beyond the sky. But how are we supposed to triumph over these expectations, if we are unaware of our own aptitude? We face a very different world, today. Way different than what it was in Shakespearean times. Yet his words pertain to us just as aptly. In a world so demanding, so harsh, so vigorous, we need something to ground us, to make sense of our being. We need to confide, have faith and know our boundaries and limits. And for that… Well, we must be true to our owneth self. What is the self? It is perceived to be our inner mirror. Something that reflects our every deed. It is our conscience, pricking us when...