“The gods are real crazy when it comes to prayers. They listen to some sometimes and do not listen to some sometimes. But the whole world prays, nonetheless-All the time”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“But you raised a ruckus about and threatened to perform a Julius Caesarian on anybody on anybody who calls April the cruelest month- I was Damn born out of the loins of my father in the spring of April, you claimed. Surgeon, you stood up for the month of buds and bitches like a true Kuon Kunos”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“I knew then and there only that pretty young little things are like monsoon lilies; transient trams. Catch them if you can, but if you miss them, do not wail, a next one would be whistling round the corner, about to enter the La Gurre of your heart”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“Your perception may not be my reality”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“That is what the opposites do, cross the swords invariably and unknowingly.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“He didn't ask because he didn't wanted to know. If you know, moments die an instant death. She held his hand in hers; hiding them like a pearl; her coral eyes ensconcing his pain.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and sucking innocent souls.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“All scientist are oglers, i suppose, the sensuousness is a sine quo non of modern technology”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“The words explain us all, each having a meaning in a meantime: every time for a lifetime.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“It is hard to let go; harder to hold on to.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“Her tears still lay, unattended, on my bosom...I wouldn't wipe them, for she might stop paying me visits.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“What can a fallen star wish for, but it fulfills other's wishes, is it not?”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“History tells creativity is a result of Soul song.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“It had remained a mystery to me, a catholic magic, i suppose. Faith is the best Googly one can bowl: God, the proverbial third umpire.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“Tough to part; lock, stock and barrel. Something remains, like recognizable tastes and smells, which kindle the faculty of memory, yea-pricks the soul.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“I know it is the itch between the legs which causes everything-Wars, Religions, Marriages, Elections, Families, Globalization, Trade, Literature, Science, and for me Philosophy.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“That night I woke up to a strange fact; keep milk not to drink but to feed the cat.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“Dream are, afterall universal, no ownership, no monopoly: i dream, i achieve, all are blessed.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“Life cannot be lived without irritations and angers; fights and placation-A cycle of Karma, wheels of succor.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“Jai Shiv shambu, shiv shankar, Jai Bhole..”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“I was sent to a school with bosses for teachers- no Twain, only cane; check your dick you harry, no Dickens either, No Tom Sawyers no David Copperfields only Webster, master it for grammar, the Wren with a dash of Martini-Drink deep.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“Who listens to you when you are at your lowest lows? No one. But it is the best time when you should listen to your calling.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“Its gresham's law in operation is all walks of life and not just money: bad money drives out good money from circulation; bad writers drive out good writers from circulation, bad parents drive out good parents from nuturing, bad politicians drive out good politicians from governance, bad girls drive out good girls from heart, bad teachers drive out good teachers from classes....But bad emotions drive out good rationality.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“ For, if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs needs spectacled snails, salivating on the Soma of youth.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
“All beautiful women lead a gearless life and die horribly. Like the queen- Marilyn Monroe.”
― Aporva Kala, quote from The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu
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“He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, quote from The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“I picked up a small square shortbread biscuit and stared at it, noting the uneven angles, wishing it were a perfect square, but it was, after all, merely a baked good, and baked goods did not ordinarily form perfect squares.”
― Kathleen Baldwin, quote from A School for Unusual Girls
“Denigration afflicted our vaunted ideals long ago, but such inflictions are difficult to measure, to rise up and point a finger to this place, this moment, and say: here, my friends, this was where our honour, our integrity died. The affliction was too insipid, too much a product of our surrendering mindful regard and diligence. The meanings of words lost their precision – and no-one bothered taking to task those who cynically abused those words to serve their own ambitions, their own evasion of personal responsibility. Lies went unchallenged, lawful pursuit became a sham, vulnerable to graft, and justice itself became a commodity, mutable in imbalance. Truth was lost, a chimera reshaped to match agenda, prejudices, thus consigning the entire political process to a mummer’s charade of false indignation, hypocritical posturing and a pervasive contempt for the commonry. Once subsumed, ideals and the honour created by their avowal can never be regained, except, alas, by outright, unconstrained rejection, invariably instigated by the commonry, at the juncture of one particular moment, one single event, of such brazen injustice that revolution becomes the only reasonable response. Consider this then a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability. Until comes a time when one final lie is voiced, the one that can only be answered by rage, by cold murder, and on that day, blood shall rain down every wall of this vaunted, weaning society. Impeached Guild Master’s Speech Semel Fural of the Guild of Sandal-Clasp Makers”
― Steven Erikson, quote from The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen
“The magic will not solve your problems. It will only add to them. The magic will not make people like you. It will increase their distrust. The magic will not ease your pain. It will twist and burn inside you until sometimes you think that even death would be preferable."
-Antimodes, "Soulforge”
― Margaret Weis, quote from The Soulforge
“The world is filled with unreasonable hate. What's wrong with unreasonable love?”
― Mary Doria Russell, quote from A Thread of Grace
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