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Jade was the visible proof that a person had dedicated their life to the discipline of wielding power, to the dangers and costs of being a Green Bone.

You’d think it would be easier to face death as you get older, but it doesn’t work that way. You get more attached to life, to people you love and things that are worth living for.

“Shae,” Hilo said, turning serious, “if there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s that you can’t make people turn out a certain way no matter how much you try, including your kids. Especially your kids.”

Bero hated that he had no answer. Maybe he had nothing in Janloon, but Janloon had him. Even rats had a sewer to call home, and Janloon was his sewer.

The most honest prayers were inspired by terror.

Everything’s more beautiful when you don’t think you’ll see it again.

A small thing like a ruined bicycle could change fate, just as a stone-eye could tip the scales in a clan war.

He was then armed with a helmet, a wooden bat, a small red handkerchief and a commodity called guys. His occupation was facing Hall of Famers hurling leather projectiles at well over 90 miles per hour often aimed at his body or head.

“Justice died in Homeland,” Silence said. “But yes, I’ll kill him. I promise it to you, child.” 🤘🏻

THIEVERY was the most authentic form of flattery.

“I have heard many stories of you, Survivor,” she said. “They often laud your many admirable qualities. Sincerity is never one of those.”

“The bastard by birth,” Kelsier said, “is always better off than the one by choice, Drifter.

If you're crazy enough to pick on a career such as mine, patience is the main necessary ingredient.

Such scandalous cover for a thriller, my maid is giving me "judging" looks!

But hope is good strong drink, especially when you can get someone else to buy it for you. 🍻

She says it's too easy to call people evil instead of their choices, and that lets people justify making evil choices, because they convince themselves that it's okay because they're still good people overall, inside their own heads.

Gurusinha finally got hold of Warne in the twenty-first over. He belted a short ball through mid-on to take Sri Lanka past their 100, then struck a steepling straight six with a cross-batted tennis-style forearm. This laconic bear of a batsman exudes lazy strength. 🐻

For the English, the Eden Gardens ‘riot’ confirmed what they had always believed: the subcontinent was no place to stage a World Cup. Its denizens had been derided as volatile fanatics since the days of Empire and their inability to cope with defeat proved that they were still beyond the pale of civilisation (and its English epitome, the game of cricket).

Whatever else Prasad learned at Dennis Lillee’s feet while studying at the MRF Pace Academy in Madras, he had perfected the fast bowler’s glare; he turned it now on Sohail. 😂

Ambrose came to the wicket looking as if he resented even being there. He glanced around with dull, irritated eyes. Once again, his team-mates had let him down. Was he expected to win the match with bat as well as ball?

He invited me to a meal at the home occupied by his extended family in Cavalry Colony. I was confronted by a remarkable gang of ageing leftist intellectuals who plied me with Scotch (freely available despite prohibition) and probed me on the state of cricket and the struggle for socialism. 😂

And what was salient from the first was that all the banners and speeches, all the politicians’ exhortations, were nothing compared to the warmth and passion of the crowd. They gave the visitors, and their own Sri Lankan heroes, an unofficial welcome far more stirring than anything the officials could cook up.

When national pride is pricked, facts and logic are quickly superseded by myth and emotion.

"Nowhere else in the world is a cricketer made to feel so important.’ In England, taking a keen interest in cricket is considered mildly eccentric and cricket fans view themselves as a breed apart. In the subcontinent, not taking an interest in cricket is considered eccentric, and to be a cricket fan is to be in the mainstream of public discourse."
That's what a 90's kid aka Tony Greig would say! 😛

If the American abroad is puzzled by the English attachment to cricket, he is dumbfounded by the Indian passion for it. 😂

Bevan was listed on the scoreboard simply as ‘Michael’, a Pakistani payback for the countless times their names had been muddled by commentators abroad. 😂😂😂

Ordinary people want a mop in the cupboard, not a rocket launcher, and here I am struggling desperately for two hours just to turn up a spell to wash the floor.

Guilt isn’t a wise companion, my son. It tears at your heart and eats at your soul.

Border expressed the sentiment of his generation when he declared: ‘In any drama that has happened in my playing time the common denominator in it all is Pakistan’. 😂

‘I am sure there is a general view that with a coloured umpire it is often a question of integrity; with a white-skinned man the same mistake is called human error’, said Mahboob Shah.