Sagar

“And even though everything had a place, nothing, absolutely nothing, sold like power in the world. Human beings, at their core, were perverted beasts cloaking their true nature with civilization. Give humans a chance to let out their perversions and feel powerful, even momentarily, and they would do anything to do it again, and again, and again, just to experience the high. Some even had the thrill of pretending to be upstanding, upright humans while unleashing their inner selves in secret, another twisted manifestation of power.”
― RuNyx, The Syndicater

“So as long as there is a third party in the country, that is, the British, these dissensions will not end. They will go on growing. They will disappear only when an iron dictator rules India for twenty years. For a few years at least after the end of British rule in India, there must be a dictatorship. No other constitution can flourish in this country. And it is to India's good that she should be ruled by a dictator, to begin with. None but a dictator can wipe out such dissensions. India does not suffer from one ailment, she suffers from so many political ills that only a ruthless dictator can cure her of these, India needs a Kamal Pasha.”
― Uttam Chand, When Bose was Ziauddin

“...we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, “A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient