He decided that for an ounce of that laughter, he could sacrifice an entire lifetime of happiness.

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent’s work as introspecting on your own.

Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories... when that happens, it isn’t just the loss of one life, it’s the loss of two lives – one who found another world, perhaps... and one who is left behind.

People don’t change, they come closer and closer to who they really are.

Ever wondered how do you kill yourself without actually dying? Simple. Love someone who doesn’t love you back.

Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown the stone of her heart on the building of his expectations. But then wasn’t it his fault that he had constructed the building of glass? Hadn’t he failed to cement the bricks of his love with trust and colour them with security? There was no insurance for broken hearts, no ointment for wounded souls and there would never be one, he knew.

Love? he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who don’t.

If a man cries in front of you, it doesn’t mean he’s weak. It means that he trusts you enough to let his guard down.

In every laugh, he hears her, in every tear, he sees her. Not a mere reflection, the complete ‘her’.