Atharva

“And, having killed him (Abhimanyu), your people danced round his dead body like savage hunters exulting over their prey. All good men in the army were grieved and tears rolled from their eyes. Even the birds of prey, that circled overhead making noises seemed to cry 'Not thus! Not thus!”
― C. Rajagopalachari, Mahabharata

“चुकली दिशा तरीही हुकलें न श्रेय सारें;
वेद्या मुशाफ़िराला सामील सर्व तारे.

मी चालतों अखंड चालायचें म्हणून;
धुंदींत या गतीच्या सारेच पंथ प्यारे.

डरतात वादळांना जे दास त्या ध्रुवाचे;
हें शीड तोडलें कीं अनुकूल सर्व वारे!

मग्रूर प्राक्तनाचा मीं फ़ाडला नकाशा;
विझले तिथेंच सारे ते मागचे इशारे.

चुकली दिशा तरीही आकाश एक आहे,
हें जाणतो तयाला वाटेल तेथ न्यारे.

आशा तशी निराशा, हें श्रेय सावधांचें;
बेसावधास कैसे डसणारे हे निखारे.”
― विंदा करंदीकर

“In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons