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“Chocolate is a vegetable. Honest.”
― Ashok Banker

“Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.”
― Ashok Banker

“Alone we are savages, together we are civilization”
― Ashok K. Banker, Vertigo

“Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.”
― Ashok Banker

“Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.”
― Ashok Banker

“You should always judge a book by its lovers.”
― Ashok Banker

“With great power comes great reprehensibility.”
― Ashok Banker

“I'm just one molecule of plastic in the composition of a little pin on a very large map”
― Ashok K. Banker, Vertigo

“Carpe Diem Ballus. Translation: Seize the Day by the Balls. Before it seizes your's. (Applies to women too.)”
― Ashok Banker

“Advertising, Marketing, PR can get more people to buy your book. Only great writing can get more people to love it.”
― Ashok Banker

“human capacity for arrogance was only exceeded by its capacity for ignorance.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ramayana: The Complete Edition

“That was the difference between being a boy, a man, and a father and a chief: the boy could revel in sensual fantasies, the man wrestle and come to terms with deeds done and undone, while to a man with vital responsibilities and obligations, a new day meant new troubles.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ten Kings: Dasarajna

“If it changes shape and structure, form and even content, it is because that is the nature of the story itself: it inspires the teller to bring fresh insights to each new version, bringing us ever closer to understanding Rama himself.  This is why it must be told, and retold, an infinite number of times.  By me.  By you.  By grandmothers to their grandchildren.  By people everywhere, regardless of their identity.  The first time I was told the Ramayana, it was on my grandfather’s knee. He was excessively fond of chewing tambaku paan and his breath was redolent of its aroma. Because I loved lions, he infused any number of lions in his Ramayana retellings—Rama fought lions, Sita fought them, I think even Manthara was cowed down by one at one point! My grandfather’s name, incidentally, was Ramchandra Banker. He died of throat cancer caused by his tobacco-chewing habit. But before his throat ceased working, he had passed on the tale to me.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ramayana: The Complete Edition

“and grinned at them, as if luring them on. ”
― Ashok K. Banker, Fortress of Dwarka

“a blind insistence on rationality could cloud one’s mind as easily as superstition.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ramayana: The Complete Edition

“the worst thing in life is not our own death or pain, but the pain and vulnerability of our loved ones, and of love itself. Death comes only once; a father’s concern waxes daily.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ten Kings: Dasarajna

“Without accurate intelligence, no strategy could be effective.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ten Kings: Dasarajna

“Better to be a man and respected like a king, than to be a king respected by no man,”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ten Kings: Dasarajna

“How to do without, in order to grow within.”
― Ashok K. Banker, Ramayana: The Complete Edition

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
― Elif Şafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love