Tanaz Bhathena > Quotes

“You're not weak if you talk to someone about your abuse.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“It is strange, I thought, how we always recognize our best memories in hindsight.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“The trouble with rumors was that they had the tendency to stick. To coat over your logic like tea stains on teeth. What was even more troublesome was that there had been times in the past when they turned out to be accurate.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“You can control people if you know their language. You can shut them up.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“Love is always the answer when things go wrong.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“When people say you’re wrong so many times over so many years, when they call you a bad person, you begin to believe them. You begin to hide your face again – to anyone – you will be judged. Sometimes, it gets so bad that you begin to wonder if life is worth living.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“Accept love, no matter how barbed it may look. It is the only way to restore balance in the world.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“I finally recover use of my voice. “It wasn’t your fault, Rajkumar . You didn’t do anything.”

“No, I didn’t. And with my silence, I became an accomplice.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“Stories, my father used to say, would always change the course of our lives, the greatest ones being retold over and over again not to simply convey morals or life lessons, but to bring people together. That is the reason a storyteller tells stories, he declared even during his last days, while lying in the hospital bed. So he can connect to another human being!”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“The sky will fall, a star will rise
Ambar changed by the king's demise
Her magic untouched and unknown by all
Marked with a star, she'll bring his downfall.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“Love is the answer,” Porus told me, when I asked him once. “Love is always the answer when things go wrong.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“Memories, Pappa had said, can be like splinters, digging into you when you least expect them to, holding tight and sharp the way wood did when it slid under a fingernail.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“He may not dig through a mountain for you, but he will do other things. Little things like remembering your birthday, bringing you gifts for no reason, making sure you get the bigger half of a sandwich. It’s the little things that turn into big things, anyway. That can change someone absolutely ordinary into someone who you can one day love back.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“Sometimes life does not go the way we want it to and we can’t really change that. But it doesn’t matter as long as we have someone to love us. Love is more important than anything else in this world.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“Give them the truth, but never the whole truth”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“I finally recover use of my voice. “It wasn’t your fault, Rajkumar . You didn’t do anything.”“No, I didn’t. And with my silence, I became an accomplice.”

Accept love, no matter how barbed it may look. It is the only way to restore balance in the world.

“So you see, Siya, he is not the sort of king who will let you go if you simply ask him to. He relishes combat, thrills in it. As I’ve grown older, I’ve seen the damage my father has done to this kingdom and his people. For all the power I supposedly have as a prince, I have done nothing except play the role of a useless bystander.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“Shhhhhh, my girl. We are from Ambar, a land named after the sky itself. Our souls are linked to the goddess who lives up there, the goddess who gave birth to Asha, our first queen. We do not share the same sort of affinity to the gods and the goddess from the other kingdoms , or to human prophets.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“Falling in love doe snot mean you're desperate.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“In this world, no one cares if you are starving to death. No one even looks at you. They only care when you start doing things they don't approve of - like dancing with your clothes off.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“Weakness is not always a terrible thing. It can be used as a shield to hide your true strength.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“It wasn't your fault, Rajkumar. You didn't do anything."

"No, I didn't. And with my silence, I became an accomplice.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“According to the Dog Lady, if you ever wanted to know what a person was like, all you had to do was peek into their living room through a window or an open door, A person's home tells you a lot about who they are, I'd overheard her telling Massi once, Even if you can't see their faces.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“Duality rules the world you live in. Illness walks hand in hand with health, evil hand in hand with the good. Injustice has a similar journey; wherever it goes, justice must follow. It’s a perfect circle, you see? Like this chakra I spin in my hand.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“When we talk about violence, we do not always talk about death, I said. Sometimes violence can mean the difference between life and death. The difference between waiting for someone's help and continuing to suffer abuse, and helping yourself when you most need it.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“We’re all servants in a way. The king must serve his subjects and so must the other members of the royal family. The Code of Asha states that to coexist, we must honor and depend on each other, magi and non-magi. It’s what the old high priests —the great acharyas of Ambar— called a sandhi or a joining.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“If there's a choice between saving your life and taking the king's, goddess knows I will always choose to save yours.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“Descrisesem sufletele așa cum mi le imaginam eu, ușoare ca fulgii și invizibile, plutind în sus printr-un strat de nori care arăta ca unul de bumbac, dar era răcoros, cețos și foarte ud. Până ce sufletele străbăteau plafonul noros, veșmintele lor lumești aveau să fie îmbibate de umezeală. Apoi aveau să treacă printr o zonă însorită și caldă, care mirosea a pâine prăjită, apoi printr un nou strat rece și umed. Cald, rece, cald, rece, până ce aerul se subția și cerul se întuneca, devenind din albastru deschis bleumarin.
Descrisesem apoi spațiul extraterestru. Stele pretutindeni, ca niște gămălii de diamant. Comete cu cozi sfârâind de foc incandescent. Ploi de meteoriți roșii, portocalii și albaștri. Planete colorate învârtindu-se în jurul unor sori fierbinți. Sufletele aveau să-și continue mult timp ascensiunea prin acest spațiu vast și scânteietor, până ce aveau să ajungă într-un întuneric profund, unde capetele lor aveau să atingă ceva care părea un plafon, dar era o membrană delicată străbătută de vinișoare subțiri, gata să se sfâșie dac-o împungeai cu degetul. Dincolo de această membrană se aflau raiul sau iadul, în funcție de felul în care se comportaseră sufletele pe pământ.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That

“He's a man I've killed in a hundred different ways in my imagination over the past two years. A slit throat. A poisoned cup. An atashban blasted through the heart.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, Hunted by the Sky

“But Pappa had always told me that love didn’t think. It was, I understood, the choice between the cage of a safe, unbroken life and one of freedom.”
― Tanaz Bhathena, A Girl Like That