DaughterOfHades

“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present.”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel

“Nehru, speaking of his country’s dreams, said: ‘Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.’ It”
― Shashi Tharoor, Pax Indica: India and the World of the Twenty-first Century

“When we kill people, we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

“We’re all consumed with the petty drama, the minor stuff settled right up at the top, like roses and trash. Not many people realize how easy it is to dig a little deeper.”
― R.S. Grey, Chasing Spring