Quotes from பொன்னியின் செல்வன், பாகம் 1: புது வெள்ளம்

“Stars! It looks as if you're winking amused at the idiocy of the people on this earth. You have every reason to laugh. You saw the battle that happened a hundred years ago, and the blood that flooded the ground a long time afterwards. You wonder why there should be so much enmity among human beings, so much carnage and bloodshed. And why this should be known as heroism!" "Even after a man has been dead a hundred years, people continue to hate him. This is an enemy's pallipadai where people gather to torture the living in name of the dead. Stars in the sky! Why wouldn't you laugh! Laugh!”

“I thought that there is yet hope for someone who was caught in the river’s whirlpool, but none exists for those who are trapped in the vortex of a beautiful woman’s eyes.”

“The mist wishes to have the sun but what does the sun do - it burns so fiercely that the mist disappears.”

“அடித்துக்கொண்டு பறந்தன. ஆயிரம் பதினாயிரம் குயில்கள் ஒன்று சேர்ந்து இன்னிசை பாடின. மலை, மலையான வண்ண மலர்க் குவியல்கள் அவன் மீது”