I wonder if I should believe what she says. But when you're not strong in yourself, anyone can tell you anything and you'll fall for it.

At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks.

When you're looking for a relationship, the process weakens you. you feel you have to bear with whatever the other person wants. Each of the people I have met has made this a little more clear.

I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.

I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.

Once you start living together and you see the same person day in and day out, you begin to wonder: was it for this I struggled and toiled? Did he feel that way?

Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling?

I felt the kind of peace you feel when you come in from a hot afternoon and pour cold water over your feet.

That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.

Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is an unending process of self-discovery and creative evolution. Real success depends on being true to what fascinates you.

Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed th

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading "Gossip Girl."

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

The Islamic world doesn't stop in the Arab world or Persia. There is the whole Turkic world, the Central Asian world, South Asian world, Southeast Asian world, and African world.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.