11 quotes found
“The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.”
“In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.”
“With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before”
“Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.”
“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”
“But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost”
“He felt his presence on earth being denied, even as he stood there. He was forbidden access; the past refused to admit him. It only reminded him that this arbitrary place, where he'd landed and mad...”
“But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out of his dreams, its reality and its particular logic rendered meaningless in the light of day. The...”
“There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain. It ushered in the solid, dreamless sleep that otherwise elud...”
“On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight into the kitchen, washing up the morning dishes she'd ignored, then getting dinner started. She mea...”
“Nor was her love for Udayan recognizable or intact. Anger was always mounted to it, zigzagging through her like some helplessly mating pair of insects. Anger at him for dying when he might have liv...”
