Saswati

“Food?" he asked.
"Is that your answer to every disagreement?" Eshonai asked, breaking her song.
"It's hard to argue with your mouth full," Thude said.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“She laughed out loud. 'I can't teach you that,' she said. 'Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you're lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have. I advise you to forget about love, princess. Pleasure is simpler, and duty more important. Learn to be satisfied with them.' I should have believed her and modified my expectations. But I didn't. Deep in my stubborn heart I was convinced I deserved more.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“For indeed, a man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if in the end he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

“Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path- all they do is trip you up.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions