“I have learnt that a good marriage is healing for the soul, something to relish. But a bad marriage is long-suffering, a thing to be endured. The only good thing about marriage is that its perishab...”

“In India theres no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young mans face and youll find an old mans mind.”

“She stood above the sink and broke the Swarovski glass frame a wedding gift with her hands. Her thumb got cut. As blood drops fell into the sink, like mercury balls she thought, she lit the photo...”

“Of all the roles shed played daughter, student, employee, sister and wife wife was the smallest and in proportion the most difficult, as though it had run out of steam with its own scale. The wor...”

“In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.”

“Of all the roles she’d played – daughter, student, employee, sister and wife – wife was the smallest and in proportion the most difficult, as though it had run out of steam with its own scale. The ...”

“Write down everything you fear in life.Burn it.Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.”

“The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.”

“My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the m...”

“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.Le...”

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine...”

“Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?”

“If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way with...”

“When we are at peace within our marriage, the effects can be astounding! We will raise happier children, become better employees, and overall find the joy in life.”

“Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”