Shatrujeet Nath > Quotes

“The universe is all about balance. The forces of light and darkness are meant to keep a check on one another. If one becomes too powerful and starts overrunning the other, that balance will be upset. For the tyranny of virtue is as unbearable as the stranglehold of vice.”
― Shatrujeet Nath, The Guardians of the Halahala

“The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to build all by yourself, all alone, all through the night, while the world goes about its business without giving a damn. The only way of making this perilous passage is by looking at it as a pilgrimage.”
― Shatrujeet Nath

“There is child in all of us that refuses to grow up, a child that is in awe of what can be, the polar opposite of the cynic in all of us who despairs over what is. Stories of magic, fantastic monsters, impossible courage and spectacular heroism appeal to this child, instilling it with hope and faith in humanity and in the cosmic order.”
― Shatrujeet Nath

“Myths are what remain once the history of an event has been forgotten or lost to time. Myths are like the memory of one’s first crush; the pain and longing one felt at that time is forgotten, but the warmth and sweetness of romance lives on, probably even magnified, larger in the imagination than it was in reality.”
― Shatrujeet Nath

“The life that you are about to embrace is not that of a soldier or a commando. It is the way of the assassin.”
― Shatrujeet Nath, The Karachi Deception

“The outcome of battle is never in a warrior’s control. What is in his control is how he chooses to fight and what he chooses to fight for. Today, I choose to fight to keep the Anartas and Sindhuvarta free of the invaders – and I choose to fight such that the enemy will speak of me in their legends for generations to come.”
― Shatrujeet Nath, The Conspiracy at Meru

“An intelligent man will use a book to settle an argument. Preferably a hardback with a thick spine, flat across the bridge of the nose.”
― Shatrujeet Nath

“the more truthful you are, the less people are inclined to believe you.”
― Shatrujeet Nath, Vikramaditya Veergatha Book 1 The Guardians of the Halahala

“In battle, it is not the strongest or the bravest or those with the greater numbers who win. Victory belongs to the side that best understands the price of defeat.”
― Shatrujeet Nath, The Conspiracy at Meru

“For the tyranny of virtue is as unbearable as the stranglehold of vice.”
― Shatrujeet Nath, Vikramaditya Veergatha Book 1 The Guardians of the Halahala

“Our fight was not for ownership of a fertile piece of land. It was about defending the sanctity of ethics and fairness and dignity --- about defending humanity. Those are the values worth fighting for. If we forsake those very values in war, we become the very thing we are fighting against. We become them. Then what do we have left to fight for?”
― Shatrujeet Nath, The Conspiracy at Meru

“If something works, it becomes a good decision. If it doesn’t, it becomes a bad one. It’s only the consequences that make decisions look good or bad. But”
― Shatrujeet Nath, The Karachi Deception

“So much had happened in such a short time; an entire generation of memories had sprouted and borne a harvest of bitter fruit in three days.”
― Shatrujeet Nath, Vikramaditya Veergatha Book 2 The Conspiracy at Meru