Sons of Darkness Quotes

“Hero. The word slithered nastily in his mind. An honour bestowed upon you when you had killed all those who would have called you a mass murderer.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“After all, love without self-sacrifice was just lust”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“A place where soldiers found themselves as rulers, Shakuni thought, can only breed tyrants.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“On the contrary, tampering with things we don't know is the very essence of being a human. That's how we discovered how to make babies.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“A life unnoticed by Gods is boring and unimaginative, but a happy and long one.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“A thing of beauty is said to last forever, unless it begins to speak. Mati thanked the Storm God that her Lamb had not proposed marriage. Nothing ruins an affair more than an effort to make it last.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“I have some ideas,’ Krishna said with a twinkle in his eyes that arsonists might have when lighting a torch near a fireworks shop.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“But Krishna liked that about her. It had made her… realistic about things. She laughed with the knowledge that it wasn’t meant to last, and cried with the self assurance that it was futile. She was like a glacier, relentless and implacable. But eyeing the letter from Panchal, he reckoned that sometimes even a vast glacier could crack into crevasses under deer hooves.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Valkan life was one of violence, but it had not always been so. In their worship of the flesh of the earth, the hair of the forest, the breath of the wind and the bones of rocks, they had long abandoned their worship of wonder, of knowledge. The Valkas had been holders of arcane secrets, passed on from one generation to the next through word of mouth; knowledge that had helped them tame nature. Now, they just lived with the answer their ancestors had unravelled, having entirely forgotten their questions.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“The man had committed genocide. She knew she could trust him.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Shakuni wondered if the tea he had drunk had been poisoned.
Even if it had, there was not much he could do about it. If death was coming, he would rather be sitting down anyway. Yet he was curious. Which of his crimes had the White Eagle uncovered?”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“But Asha was right. He should have felt victorious, elated even. And yet, despite his valiant efforts, he felt like a man who had finally opened the box of glory to find that it did not contain what was etched on the lid.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“You see, that's the thing with conquerors, they cannot stop conquering, for then they would have to start ruling, and my guess is Jarasandh isn't as good a ruler as he is a conqueror.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“...leaving no doubt he was the Chosen One. Chosen for what precisely, no one bothered to ask.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Karna himself was dressed in passably aristocratic style in a caramel-brown knee-length coat that he was sweating in. A mark of a fraud, for the truly rich never sweat.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“There was a time when young Oracles awaiting investiture were made to witness the slaughter of their families, to sear into their souls the futility of hope. This sacred tradition had however, been abandoned by the Matrons over time, in favour of a meeker rite of passage into the House of Oracles. They reckoned the trials of initiation were lessons enough for the novices. Masha, on the other hand, thought the Matrons had grown soft.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“We play with the gifts the Gods bestow upon us . And who are they to us? Either carpets to our thrones or casualties on the way.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“You suffer the staleness a man feels when he has achieved everything, Brother.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Conscience was but a front for cowardice.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“A life unnoticed by the Gods is boring and unimaginative, but a happy and long one.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Then why do things that cannot be justified continue?’

‘Because the men standing in the light of continuity are more powerful than those cowering in its shadow.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“And I promise you will find peace and harmony…in time…a wonderful wife who will beget you beautiful sons and strong daughters, who will themselves have children as fine as the Gods you worship”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“But he had no understanding of the virtues of moderation. He had the kind of generous nature that reckoned panic was not something you hoarded for yourself; you shared it with family.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“And that is why, to Karna, this errand of charming Mardin to give up his seat had sounded much like convincing a man to give up his wife. He knew it had been done before, but he had absolutely no idea what words to use to achieve this result.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Maybe they are running out of land for themselves…Forests cut down by the thousands. Conquests. New Kingdoms. Shifting cultivation. In the world we men have made, there is no room for them…or for that matter, us”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Envy filled Muchuk’s heart. Was there any warrior as fortunate as a truly ugly one? And Asha was as ugly as rain on a wedding day.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

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― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness