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“Unless you had grown up beside a person from the beginning, had breathed the same air, there was too much about that life you would never be able to explain. You had to love, if you loved at all, as an act of faith, uncomprehendingly”
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“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
“What would you stop at to help the people you love most? Well, you obviously don’t love anyone very much if your love is contingent on them always staying the same.”
― Home Fire
― Home Fire
“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.”
― Home Fire
― Home Fire
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― Sindha Nathi: Ninaivalaikal
― Sindha Nathi: Ninaivalaikal
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