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It reminded him of the time his parents had brought him to the doctor for an eye checkup and he was told he had to wear glasses. His father had been disappointed about that, but the moment Zorian had donned the little pieces of glass, he knew he never wanted to take them off.

Zorian would be the first to admit he wasn't the easiest person to get along with. He was unsociable, irritable, and tended to assume the worst of people.

In short, she was a spider version of Kirielle. 😂😂😂

Time loop or no, it felt wrong to blatantly snub someone so visibly happy to see him, especially since he shared so much history with Benisek.

His last thoughts were that it wasn't fair. Just how many contingencies did these have? These invaders were freaking cheaters!

It seemed that Ilsa, like his mother, had a tendency to 'translate' his words into whatever was most convenient to her purposes. The two of them would get along quite well, Zorian suspected.

It became apparent that under Rahane, the players were trying to be the best versions of themselves rather than live up to his idea of their respective best versions.

Every time this relentless Indian team felt like a door had been shut on them, another opened and out walked a hero. And that probably would be the lasting legacy of this, at times, unbelievable achievement by India's miracle men, amid all the majestic performances, the shocking reversals, the courageous comebacks and the eventual glory.

That's the thing with faith. It takes a moment to lose faith but countless repeated efforts to win it back.

We don't get what we deserve. We get what we choose.

I don't think it really matters whether you know a lot about books or not. That said, I don't know that much myself. But I think what matters far more with a book is how it affects you.

Don't be afraid to love someone. When you fall in love, I want you to fall in love all the way. Even if it ends in heartache, please don't live a lonely life without love.

At the bookshop, my uncle kept things under more control, but take one step outside and he was totally different. I sighed, feeling like a dog owner being dragged around by her pet. 😂

But what can the twins do? Their daddy won’t let anyone buy them nice things anymore. He says he needs the money for his medicine.

His medicine comes in twelve-packs and glass bottles most days.

Maybe, Indian cricket never truly appreciated and realized the value of Manoj Prabhakar. Maybe, if Prabhakar would have played for any other country he would have been revered and celebrated more.

"As soon as India was knocked out of the Commonwealth games, the BCCI made arrangements for Tendulkar, Jadeja and Robin Singh to join the team in Toronto. Eventually, Tendulkar and Jadeja were inducted into the team for the final game of the series. However, this didn't go down well with Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi who accused the team in Kuala Lumpur of not giving their best."

Hilarious!

No other tournament has modified the landscape and characteristics of a cricketing nation as significantly as the 1996 World Cup did with Indian cricket.

The innings during the third test at the Wankhede gave the cricketing world a glimpse of Kambli's batting ability. His stroke play through the offside drew comparisons with the likes of Roy Fredericks and Alvin Kallicharan and his dazzling footwork against the spinners impressed one and all. It was apparent to anybody who was watching that a new batting star had arrived.

I stood in front of the urinal and did a quick calculation. Ethanol had two carbons, six hydrogens, and one oxygen. Nine atoms. I had been divorced and was slowly being broken down by nine atoms.

In science, you were either obsessed or lucky, and trying to tell the difference was a waste of time; time that was better spent obsessing or being lucky.

"Not everything can be approached with scientific rationality," she'd said often. "Music is part of the irrational human truth."

Gustavo awoke and recognized that Pierre was his mind’s manifestation of Laplace’s demon. The demon predicted everything based on previous knowledge.

"I knew I was a baby, an immature pathetic loser..."

Well that sums up our MC here.

I could feel the ache in his eyes; his melancholy was familiar, a friend we had in common.

"Carl (Hooper) just kept depositing Curtly (Ambrose) into the school yard over the leg-side boundary," observes Fare. The ball wasn't the only thing that went to school that afternoon.

Absolutely brilliant writing 🙏🏻

AD (Allan Donald) looked at the pitch and said, 'I'm not bowling on that, I'll kill someone.'

It was a tragedy for all three that Carrick was unable to see his two proteges carve their distinctive lines across the international stage: Laxman flipping fourth-stump balls through mid-wicket and, if the mood took him, steering leg-stump balls through extra cover; Hoggard sending down those leg-stump deliveries, until three-quarters of the way down the pitch they were suddenly something else entirely.

The following week, Woodhouse brought along RS Ghai, an Indian seamer who had already played the last of his six ODIs. "He was one of the few to raise eyebrows," recalls Sykes. "Especially when his first ball went straight over the keeper's head for four byes. I thought: bloody hell, what have we got here?"

It was Lancashire League tradition that any player scoring a fifty earned a collection - money tossed into a box taken round the crowd - and Bumble pocketed £105 for his efforts, with Accrington Pro - Bharat Arun picking up £135 for his 72.

Worship your heroes from a distance; when you get close to them, be good enough to be one of them.