We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don’t know how profoundly we love them. Akhil Sharma Read Quote
We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don’t act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. Akhil Sharma Read Quote
Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there was and at how certain bad situations were made worse by our decisions. Akhil Sharma Read Quote
When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: ‘Why did success pass me by?’ Akhil Sharma Read Quote
I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same. Akhil Sharma Read Quote
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother. Akhil Sharma Read Quote
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be ‘important.’ The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn’t. Akhil Sharma Read Quote
During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn’t buy a coffee. Akhil Sharma Read Quote