The Chariot at Dusk Quotes

“Esha had been pretty stupid”
― Swati Teerdhala, The Chariot at Dusk

“But I do belong here," he said, wrapping his arms around her.

"Yes," Esha laughed and Kunal reveled in the fact that it was for him, that her laughs would be his gift for the rest of his life.”
― Swati Teerdhala, The Chariot at Dusk

“All Kunal knew was that for a moment he had thought he would lose Esha. He didn't think, didn't consider, didn't decide to kill the Pretender King of Jansa in that moment. The choice had been made for him moons ago, in a tree in the Tej, in the city streets of Gwali when he had fallen in love with a girl.

His duty had changed.”
― Swati Teerdhala, The Chariot at Dusk

“His eyelids shuttered and his body stooped over. "I did it all wrong, didn't I?"

Those were his last words.
And like that, the Pretender King of Jansa was no longer a threat.

He was only a man.”
― Swati Teerdhala, The Chariot at Dusk

“We're all the same. We're all of the gods. Of creation.”
― Swati Teerdhala, The Chariot at Dusk

“Maybe change isn't a bad thing.
...
"Perhaps we've been wrong all along, trying to save something that needed to be put into the past.”
― Swati Teerdhala, The Chariot at Dusk

“You're not allowed to die.”
― Swati Teerdhala, The Chariot at Dusk

“Magic had returned to the land.”
― Swati Teerdhala, The Chariot at Dusk

“Harun, you're right."
"Can I get that in writing?”
― Swati Teerdhala, The Chariot at Dusk

“How do I look?"
"I never know the right way to answer that question."
"Radiant is always a good one. Luminescent. Incandescent."
"Beautiful."
"That's pretty standard," Esha protested.”
― Swati Teerdhala, The Chariot at Dusk