The Last Song of Dusk Quotes

“Love is bigger than us. So we confuse ourselves over it.And of course, its vastness overwhelms. But then that is the only lesson in life.How to love. How to love well, with a detached eye but a concerned hand.How to understand and surrender to its countless contradictions. Most importantly, though, how to never stop loving.”
― Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk

“Even love comes with its own season.. and relationships with their own kismets.They start through us, and then love loves through us. And when the give-and-take between two individuals is over, the relationship fades. Like a fruit that must fall from the bough if it is to carry its life into its next avatar. There is nothing more critical than to exercise the generosity to let something end with the grace it started with.”
― Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk

“We'll probably never save our souls - but hell, at least we'll get our hair sorted.”
― Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk

“Why settle for someone else's version of the truth?”
― Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk

“Life essentially seeks out balance.I have found that it is in the habit of trading one sorrow for one joy until one cancels out the other.”
― Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk

“I never lie!" her aunt said. 'I merely make the truth what it hopes to be.”
― Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk

“how lovers alter in the glance of each other, that space where their moods are accepted and their surrender is never taken advantage of.”
― Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk

“Elegance is not everything.”
― Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk

“that love and loathing, joy and distress, quietness and noise, all eventually blur and one is left wondering where one started and the other ended. 6 In the next few months, Anuradha and Vardhmaan Gand-harva, upon the discovery of the dissolution inside their loins, indulged it no end.”
― Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk