Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontrolled, uncontradicted and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live.

[Gone With the Wind]

She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate.

[Gone with the wind]

"That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
- Emma Woodhouse

[Emma]

Bhor

They said,

Pick out the one with the largest heart,

The one who’s the most important part

of your life, who can take your breath away

every time you steal a glance his way.

Who can make you laugh, who will let you cry,

who can cheer you up with his twinkling eyes.

Indeed a gem, he who walks with you

through good and bad, who loves you through

the ups and downs of life, no matter

how often you may encounter the latter.

Pick an honest soul, pick a noble friend,

pick the one you’ll be with till the end.

They said,

Pick out the one who’s the sun to your bhor.

And I, picked you.

I have finally understood something Shiva had told me once. The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy."
-Veer Bhadra

[The Secret of the Nagas]