Sohini

“To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

“There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

“How was it that no one had ever told her that it was not love itself, but its treacherous gatekeepers which made the greatest demands on your courage: the panic of acknowledging it; the terror of declaring it; the fear of being rebuffed? Why had no one told her that love's twin was not hate but cowardice?”
― Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies

“I suppose everyone finds the despotisms of other peoples hard to comprehend.”
― Amitav Ghosh, Flood of Fire