Malvika

“Why?’ she hissed. Why indeed? ‘I give you orders,’ he barked, ‘not fucking reasons!”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“An therein lurks the cruelest truth of all. In the end, we are no different from every other cult, every other religion. Convincing ourselves of the righteousness of our path. Convincing ourselves that we alone hold to an immutable truth. Secure in the belief that everyone else is damned.

But it was all a game, the sacred a playground for secular power struggles, venal ambition.

What's left to believe in?”
― Steven Erikson, The Crippled God

“Shakespeare describes the poet’s eye as rolling in a fine frenzy from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, and giving to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, but in practice you will find that one corner of that eye is generally glued on the royalty returns.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred In The Springtime

“but in the early days many things happened that were unpredictable and unheard of in Indian banking history—rats chewing off computer wires, a baby crawling on the treasury floor, bottles of wine hidden in the drawers and whatnot.”
― Tamal Bandopadhyaya, A Bank for the Buck