Pandava Quotes

“It is not failure to fail.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“A particularly good book has a way of opening new spaces in one's mind. It even invited you to come back later and rummage through what you'd learn.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Maybe that's why superheroes wore capes. Maybe they weren't capes at all, but safety blankets, like the one Aru kept at the bottom of her bed and pulled up under her chin before she went to sleep. Maybe superheroes just tied their blankies around their necks so they'd have a little bit of comfort wherever they went. Because honestly? Saving the world was scary. No harm admitting that.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“It was one of the things that she liked best when her mother told her the stories: villains could be heroic, and heroes could do evil.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Sometimes light illuminates things that are better left in the dark.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“You will never be a hero. You were never meant to be a hero."
Hero. that one word made Aru lift her chin. It made her think of Mini and Boo, her mom, and all the incredible things she herself had done in just nine days. Breaking the lamp hadn't been heroic... but everything else? Fighting for people she cared about and doing everything it took to fix her mistake? That was heroism.
Vajra became a spear in her hand.
"I already am. And it's heroine.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Tales are slippery, her mother had often said. The truth of a story depends on who is telling it.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“People are a lot like magical pockets. They're a lot bigger on the inside than they appear to be on the outside.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Love looked different to everyone.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Secrets are curious things. They are flimsy and easily broken. For this reason, they prefer to remain hidden.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“This is what we get for thinking that scaley orange skin and fake hair could keep that former demon out of elected office.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Memories are the grandest illusion of all.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“It is better, perhaps, to be thought of as a fiction than to be discarded from memory completely.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“The world had a tendency to trick people.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Aru was twelve years old. Even she knew that half the time she didn't know what she was doing.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Sometimes you don't even know how special you might be. Sometimes it takes moments of horror or happiness to, if you will, unleash that knowledge.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Real life doesn't always sound like it should.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Blood isn't the only thing that makes you related to someone”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“But worry for a friend can make ordinary circumstances extraordinary.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Suddenly Yudhisthira saw a yaksha approaching him. The being sat in front of him and began firing questions rapidly at him.


What is bigger than the Earth? the yaksha asked.

"A mother" replied Yudhisthira.

What is taller than the sky?

"A father"

What is faster than the wind?

"The mind , of course". Yudhisthira smiled.

What grows faster than hay?

"Worry"

What is the greatest dharma in the world? queried the yaksha

"Compassion and conscience"

With who is friendship never-ending?


"With good people" responded Yudhisthira patiently.

What is the secret to never feeling unhappy?

"If one can control his or her mind, then that person will never feel sad"

The yaksha increase his pace now.
What is the greatest kind of wealth.

"Education"

What is the greatest kind of profit?

"Health"

What is the greatest kind of happiness?

"Contentment" said Yudhisthira, ever prompt with his replies.

What is man's worst enemy?

"Anger"

What disease will never have a cure?

"Greed is incurable"

The yaksha smiled again. A last question my friend. What is life's biggest irony?

"It is the desire to live eternally. Every day, we encounter people dying but we always think that death will never come to us.”
― Sudha Murty, The Serpent's Revenge: Unusual Tales from the Mahabharata

“Why should I say thank you?" asked Mini. "I knew you could do it.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“Those who have never known the future have always hoped for the best. But Sahadeva, who had known the future since the past, has only hoped for it to never become the present!”
― Sahadevi M., SAHADEVA UNDERCOVER Part 1 - The Beginning and the End

“It is this Bharata, an ancestor of the Pandavas and Kauravas, after who our country is named - Bharat. Our land is also known as Bharatvarsha, or the kingdom of Bharata.”
― Sudha Murty, The Serpent's Revenge: Unusual Tales from the Mahabharata

“The day the Pandavas received the Akshaya Patra from the sun god is still celebrated in India as Akshaya Tritiya, which comes every year during the spring harvest in April or May. It is an extremely auspicious day and people believe that whatever they buy that day will grow in value. Most people prefer to purchase gold on this day”
― Sudha Murty, The Serpent's Revenge: Unusual Tales from the Mahabharata