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“It was a truth I had to accept, a truth that underscored that I had aged - one that brought with its attendant images of loneliness and irrelevance.”
― Bhaskar Ghose, The Teller of Tales

“But why this obsession with what's actually true, the real, all that? Can't you accept that our lives are always part fiction?”
― Bhaskar Ghose, The Teller of Tales

“A poem's what you think it is,' Arunava said and laughed. He held up his empty glass and said, 'Now that is very definitely not a poem, or it's a poem, but one of infinite loss and solitude, of what could have been and is not.'

'In other words, you want a refill,' I said and got him one.”
― Bhaskar Ghose, The Teller of Tales

“I mean, we live on a knife's edge, between the ordinary and whatever isn't - something terrible, something hilarious or very exciting, whatever. The difference is' - he held up a finger - 'just a fraction of a second.”
― Bhaskar Ghose, The Teller of Tales

“Something about these circuit houses,' he said. "They always seem to suggest the supernatural. Perhaps because they belong to another age and have just been left behind, almost by accident. They suggest hosts of staff, scurrying about, sahibs taking their ease, sola topis hanging from those hatstands over there, whisky and soda, steaming dishes of mutton and chicken on that large table - and look at the place now. Empty, deserted. As I said, left behind.”
― Bhaskar Ghose, The Teller of Tales

“I had no idea that my world was about to change because of her. Thus it is that major, climactic moments come and pass unobtrusively.”
― Bhaskar Ghose, The Teller of Tales

“What happens, Tapan,' Arunava had said, 'doesn't ever go away. Something remains, because it's always part of the whole place, the environment, everything. Memories are not just internal to us.”
― Bhaskar Ghose, The Teller of Tales