Anand ram

“Men it is who think they can rule others’ lives, but have no bonds to them. Do you think that to bond or not to bond is for you alone to decide? My heart is my own. I give it where I will. I will not give it to one who thrusts me aside.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“Every era produces men who dare to dream the impossible. They are not perfect human beings or incarnations of Gods on our poor earth. They are mere mortals and have many faults. Many who tried, failed by a whisker, but that did not take away the sheen of their achievements.”
― Anand Neelakantan, Ajaya: Roll of the Dice

“My head cleared, and suddenly I had heart to fight again, to ignore pain and damage, to fight! I swear I saw myself, face purpled from strangling, the rich blood streaming and soaking and the smell so maddening.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“A country that was able to suppress religion entirely and executed dissenters on the merest suspicion was unable to get welders to wear goggles. At”
― Anthony Daniels, The Wilder Shores Of Marx: Journeys In A Vanishing World