Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my nectar of love fruits, and purify the air with my calmly dancing leaves.

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

That,” she says, “was never here before.

It’s crazy to think North West can already read better than Kendall Jenner.

Leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.