40 Quotes by Tarun Shanker

He’s a boy,” the merchant replied bluntly. He held out his hand to denote height. “Like a man, but smaller.

No, the true face is wretchedly simple and empty. The absolute joy in life, in friendship, in love, is learning about a person, deciphering them, taking each and every mask off to find a new one, waiting to be explored and understood.

Well, when one door closes, another slightly more inconvenient, out-of-the-way one opens. Let’s be off, shall we?

All the ending does is ruin perfectly good suspense,” he said with a wink and headed for the door.

Was the man cleverer than he looked or just crazier? The line separating the two seemed rather thin.

Waiting by this staircase was Mr. Kent, who managed to both grimace at his stepmother and smile brightly at Laura.

While overseeing tonight’s dinner party, I finally found myself in the presence of Mr. Edwards’s famed wit when he asked me whether I had visited the zoo to see the puffins. Somehow Miss Wyndham was the one forced to leave the house.

Good Lord. His appearance was nearly a caricature of the dark and brooding hero from every gothic novel.

You are right about one thing, Mr. Kent. I don’t need a hero,” I said in a firm, even voice. “But I could never love a man who would not be my ally.