Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel Quotes

“If not for 02 October being the national holiday, would any notice Gandhi’s birthday coming and going; I bet none remembers in which year he was born, save those readying themselves for the quiz competitions; yet, we come to lay store on our children’s birthdays when they wouldn’t be knowing what was going on around them.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“It’s not the hurt that others cause to us that counts, but our response to it that matters; if a positive outlook helps us gloss over the mishaps of life, the negative feelings harm our psyche to hurt our lives.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“The irony of abuse is in the abuse of men, it's the women that get abused.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“What else are pride, greed and such but money’s minions?”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“What a pity that life robs the rich of its beauty, and what’s worse, entices them with its ugliness.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“Life tends to stray laterally on its linear course.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“Maybe it’s the birth that shapes life for fate to guide us into the grave, or is it fate that governs the birth for life to follow the set course, we would never know.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“Nowadays parents expose their kids to riches even before they barely open their eyes”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“Man is seldom wisely selfish”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“The norm of yore was ‘smoking is no disrespect’, and now the coinage is ‘desist passive smoking’, my foot, as if the air we breathe is pristine pure.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“While researchers strive to expand the frontiers of human faculties, the products of their endeavors tend to dull the creative urge of mankind at large”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“There is more money in more hands these days, and today’s poor have more to spare than the middleclass of yore.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“The fact of life is that you’re the only constant of your life and all those who enter into it through its revolving door are its uncertain variables.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“Maybe, attractive women tend to celebrate their femininity in the small pleasures that male eagerness ensures, but what a scene the plain things create from a shake-hand distance in crowded places”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“The rich man’s vulgarity has become the poor man’s alibi to be corrupt”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“What an opportunity the senior Bachchan lost to make a difference to the prejudiced heads by making a statement against the mangalik nonsense. Oh how small really the Big B is, and how big the media made Diana the small. It’s incredible how her quest for lust was portrayed as her search for love! No faulting her taking a lover on the rebound as her man thrust a rival into her marital life but for the media to picture her bed hopping as her craving for love is galling indeed. Why in picturing Diana as the icon of love the media made lust a synonym of love and what’s worse, it made a villain out of her man who embodies the best of love that is constancy.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“The self-serving ways of one that imperil others’ course would serve the unintended in unexpected ways, and that's the Goring Syndrome”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“Women tend to imagine man’s romanticism as an on-off switch within their reach.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel