Quotes by Sangu Mandanna

If you expect the worse, youre only denying someone a chance to be better

You,” he says, before the door closes all the way. “I often dream of you.

But maybe thats what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They dont need us. They echo all by themselves.

Come on, I say, lets go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.

He can see what move Im planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who the killer is in a detective story. I think he could make a career out of detecting, but he wants to write plays for theater. Maybe he could be a Shakespeare instead of a Sherlock. He could be anything. Anything he wants to be.

Just last year, I had to read the old Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Inspired by it, I wished I had been named Draupadi. After all, she, too, had been born differently, even abnormally. She had stepped out of fire, a gift from the old gods to her father the king. There had been no Hindu gods involved in my birth, but the loose parallels gave me a delightful sense of grandeur.

I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again,” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me.

If Seans voice is layers of wood, and Mina Mas is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercers is the voice of a wild animal. I suddenly think of a movie Ammara and I loved when we were little, and I think of Scar, the lion who murdered his brother to become king. That kind of voice.