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“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.”
― Home Fire
― Home Fire
“who, please explain, will fight Raavan’s hordes? The namby-pamby intellectuals of Mithila? What is the plan? Debate the Lankans to death?”
― Sita: Warrior of Mithila
― Sita: Warrior of Mithila
“பாஷைக்குள் ஒரு பாஷை ஒளிந்து கொண்டிருக்கிறது. பரிபாஷைதான் உண்மை பாஷை, ஒரு புருவ உயர்த்தல். ஒரு விரல் சொடுக்கு, ஒரு புன்னகை, அதரத்தின் வில் வளைவு; மோனமாகக் கன்னத்தில் புரளும் இரு கண்ணிர் துளிகள், நாணத்தில் தலைகுனிவு, இவை பேசும் ஒரு அகிலம், மூச்சு விடாமல் மணிக்கணக்கில் கொட்டும் வார்த்தைகளால் இயலா.”
― Sindha Nathi: Ninaivalaikal
― Sindha Nathi: Ninaivalaikal
“A man needed fire in his veins to burn through the world, not ice to freeze everything in place.”
― Home Fire
― Home Fire
“It’s strange how the most dyed-in-the-wool tyrants still vaguely respect due process, as if they want to make it appear that they aren’t abusing procedure, even while riding roughshod over every convention. It’s as if power isn’t enough for them, and that they take special pleasure in forcing their enemies to perform, one last time and for their benefit, the same rituals that they are even then demolishing.”
― The Order of the Day
― The Order of the Day
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