Sangu Mandanna Quotes

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

~ Sangu Mandanna

You have to be a two people, a saint and a sinner

~ Sangu Mandanna

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

~ Sangu Mandanna

But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.

~ Sangu Mandanna

He can see what move I'm 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.

~ Sangu Mandanna

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.

~ Sangu Mandanna

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

~ Sangu Mandanna

If Sean's voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma's is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer's 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.

~ Sangu Mandanna