The Great Indian Novel Quotes & Sayings

The novel had reached its apogee with the marriage plot and had never recovered from its disappearance. In the days when success in life had depended on marriage, and marriage had depended on money, novelists had had a subject to write about. The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage. Sexual equality, good for women, had been bad for the novel. And divorce had undone it completely. What would it matter whom Emma married if she could file for separation later? How would Isabel Archer's marriage to Gilbert Osmond have been affected by the existence of a prenup? As far as Saunders was concerned, marriage didn't mean much anymore, and neither did the novel. Where could you find the marriage plot nowadays? You couldn't. You had to read historical fiction. You had to read non-Western novels involving traditional societies. Afghani novels, Indian novels. You had to go, literarily speaking, back in time. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Seek on high bare trails
Sky-reflecting violets...
Mountain-top jewels — Basho Matsuo

I will not tolerate your faults. They are of no use to me. — Mason Cooley

Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs — Robert Kiyosaki

Genius points the way, talent takes it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

I'd describe my look as girly-edgy. I like black nail polish and eyeliner, but I'll wear them with pink shoes. — Ariel Winter

I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves. — Ellen DeGeneres

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it. — Shashi Tharoor

The loneliest place to spend eternity is your own life after you can't change it anymore.
Lucifer from Kevin — Bruce Jenvey

Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them. — William Shakespeare

What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall I not do the same? I do not care a straw if the body goes. You cannot imagine how happy I am when I find earnest seekers after truth to talk to. In the work of waking up Atman in my fellow men I shall gladly die again and again! — Swami Vivekananda

Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her heart gave a great, hurtful lurch, as though it were trying to leap out of her body to meet him. This, she thought. This is it. But it was only part of the truth. She would learn over the next years that love can feel a lot of different ways, and sometimes it can hurt a lot more. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

You imagination is more important than your knowledge. — Mike Murdock