Prashant Wadnere

“As far as I'm concerned, I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“[The princess] looks out and sees the humble musician with his lute. But unless the musician turns out to be a prince in disguise, this story cannot end well.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“But surely it is the gist that matters; I am, after all, telling you a history, and in history, as I suspect you—an American—will agree, it is the thrust of one’s narrative that counts, not the accuracy of one’s details.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic—a moral code independent of religion—strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History