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    Gourav Mohanty
    “We play with the gifts the Gods bestow upon us . And who are they to us? Either carpets to our thrones or casualties on the way.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: badass, collateral-damage, grimdark, throne
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “Hero. The word slithered nastily in his mind. An honour bestowed upon you when you had killed all those who would have called you a mass murderer.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: badass, genocide, grimdark, hero, heroism, mass-murderers
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “Envy filled Muchuk’s heart. Was there any warrior as fortunate as a truly ugly one? And Asha was as ugly as rain on a wedding day.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: battle, humor, scars, war, warrior
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “There was a time when young Oracles awaiting investiture were made to witness the slaughter of their families, to sear into their souls the futility of hope. This sacred tradition had however, been abandoned by the Matrons over time, in favour of a meeker rite of passage into the House of Oracles. They reckoned the trials of initiation were lessons enough for the novices. Masha, on the other hand, thought the Matrons had grown soft.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: grimdark, hopelessness, horror, murder, oracle, torture
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “A place where soldiers found themselves as rulers, Shakuni thought, can only breed tyrants.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: dictatorship, rulers, tyranny-quotes, tyrant
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “Maybe they are running out of land for themselves…Forests cut down by the thousands. Conquests. New Kingdoms. Shifting cultivation. In the world we men have made, there is no room for them…or for that matter, us”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: apocalypse, deforestation, doomsday, karna
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “I have some ideas,’ Krishna said with a twinkle in his eyes that arsonists might have when lighting a torch near a fireworks shop.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: dark-humour, hindu-mythology, humor, krishna
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “And that is why, to Karna, this errand of charming Mardin to give up his seat had sounded much like convincing a man to give up his wife. He knew it had been done before, but he had absolutely no idea what words to use to achieve this result.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: fantasy, funny, funny-but-true, grimdark, hindu-mythology, humor, humour, indian, karna, mythology
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “A thing of beauty is said to last forever, unless it begins to speak. Mati thanked the Storm God that her Lamb had not proposed marriage. Nothing ruins an affair more than an effort to make it last.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: grimdark, grimdark-humor, hindu-mythology, india, indian-author, kalinga, mati, mythology
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “Karna himself was dressed in passably aristocratic style in a caramel-brown knee-length coat that he was sweating in. A mark of a fraud, for the truly rich never sweat.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: funny, hindu-mythology, humor, india, indian, karna, mythology
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “After all, love without self-sacrifice was just lust”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: grimdark, grimdark-humor, india, indian-author, love, lust, mahabharata, mati, self-sacrifice
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “...leaving no doubt he was the Chosen One. Chosen for what precisely, no one bothered to ask.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: chosen-one, grimdark-fantasy, grimdark-humor, humor, humour, indian, mahabharata
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “You see, that's the thing with conquerors, they cannot stop conquering, for then they would have to start ruling, and my guess is Jarasandh isn't as good a ruler as he is a conqueror.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: conqueror-quotes, grimdark-humor, hindu-mythology, humor, humour, indian, jarasandh, mahabharata, ruler
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “A life unnoticed by Gods is boring and unimaginative, but a happy and long one.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
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    Gourav Mohanty
    “On the contrary, tampering with things we don't know is the very essence of being a human. That's how we discovered how to make babies.”
    ― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness
    tags: dry-humor, krishna, krishna-funny, witty-banter
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  • #16
    T.F. Hodge
    “A lone wolf sees the wisdom in guarding the sheep and hunting their predators.”
    ― T.F. Hodge
    tags: animal-instincts, good-samaritan, guardian, hunting-evil, predators, protectorit, sheep, vulnerable, wisdom, wolf-quotes
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