Manik Bal > Quotes

“It was a very slow change for sure but was a change nonetheless. A change only a wife can notice, she thought, adding that she should say companion instead of wife, as they insisted in the recent appropriateness course in her office.”
― Manik Bal, Whiskey And Suicide: And other stories

“Death it is”, Satish was in a full flow, “Forming a new habit is the death of the old habit. When a change in anything happens, something new is created and something old dies. But it is only in a relative sense. When you form a new habit out of a goal of an existing personality, you are carrying over that personality in time and”
― Manik Bal, Whiskey And Suicide: And other stories

“He remembered the day when he woke up completely confused and partly exotic. Life did not mean much to him on that day, but he was excited to be alive. Life seemed to sing through him, through his body and it made weird noises. It suddenly seemed like a brand-new day with the same ingredients”
― Manik Bal, Whiskey And Suicide: And other stories

“Even if it is a mid-life crisis, it is not necessarily bad news. In fact, they have identified certain transitions in an adult life that happen to everyone and it is observed that you do question everything in your forties. It is a meaning making time.”,”
― Manik Bal, Whiskey And Suicide: And other stories