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"Just read a very detailed and thorough account of Gupta dynasty and independent kingdoms that rose after it. In these pages, the book also talked about various foreign invasions in India and gives interesting account of incidents during that time - with few details of the sources - mostly inscriptions." — Sep 15, 2023 10:21AM
"Just read a very detailed and thorough account of Gupta dynasty and independent kingdoms that rose after it. In these pages, the book also talked about various foreign invasions in India and gives interesting account of incidents during that time - with few details of the sources - mostly inscriptions." — Sep 15, 2023 10:21AM
“He doesn't want to find himself seated beside Janey, to feel her leaning against him as she laughs, her knee gravitating toward his.”
― The Girl You Left Behind
― The Girl You Left Behind
“The subtlest change in New York is something people don’t speak much about but that is in everyone’s mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.”
― Here is New York
― Here is New York
“By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if they did they would live elsewhere.”
― Here Is New York
― Here Is New York
“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― The God of Small Things
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― The God of Small Things
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