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"Maybe you cannot rip people apart at the middle. May you can. Who knows? Who has tried?"

- Yakshini

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"Of what use was this existence if it was bereft of everything that she had held dear?An existence that had snatched away the most basic right of a human - the right to love and be loved?"

- Yakshini

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"It is funny how a person's punishment is never really confined to the person. When a murderer is hanged, it is not just the murderer who suffers; it is his entire family, for they have to face the shame, and the loneliness. When a man is exiled, his family has to do without him or go with him. When a King is punished, that sentence & borne by all his subjects, at times for generations to come."

- Yakshini

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"You cannot let him decide his own crime."

- Yakshini

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"The ways of the Gods are mysterious. Who can argue with them? At times they do things that we see as irrational, but it is later, sometimes millennia later, that we know they were right."

- Yakshini

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"You know how you should not look at the sun directly? It burns your eyes. Just like that - "

"You don't look at eclipses directly too."

- Yakshini

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"Yakshinis are female deities, like demigods, with great wish - fulfilling powers. If a Yakshini blesses you, you get what your heart desires. But they are unpredictable. They can be good or bad."

- Yakshini

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"Humans are blind. They cannot see what's right in front of them."

- Yakshini

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"But you must know that a father's love is different. A mother's love is built on concern; a father's love is built on hope."

- Yakshini

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"It has to end where it started."

- Yakshini

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मुतमइन है! शिकस्तों से हम उदास नहीं

ये हुनर भी तो वैसे हर किसी के पास नहीं

जिसने देखा हो एक ज़लज़ला निगाहों से

जिसने अफसाने चुने हो बहकती आहों से

कैसे कहिए कि उसे दर्द का एहसास नहीं

मुतमइन है! शिकस्तों से हम उदास नहीं

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"His scars always hurt. Not as much as they did on that first day, or even the first week. But they hurt all the same - the dull ache of something lost."

- The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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"Magic should never be used to influence the will of another person..."

- The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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"Can she be cured?"

"Oh, sweet Antain! There is no cure for sorrow."

- The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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"And the things that they did not speak began to outweigh the things that they did. Each secret, each unspoken thing was round and hard and heavy and cold, like a stone hung around the necks of both grandmother and girl. Their backs bent under the weight of secrets.

- The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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"Not all knowledge comes from the mind. Your body, your heart, your intuition. Sometimes memories even have minds of their own."

- The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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"Knowledge is powerful, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden."

- The Girl Who Drank the Moon