“Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you’re with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can see.”
― Moth Smoke
― Moth Smoke
“The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow.”
― Interpreter of Maladies
― Interpreter of Maladies
“Islands are mindless chatter in a meditative ocean.”
― Latitudes of Longing
― Latitudes of Longing
“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
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“In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time.”
― Interpreter of Maladies
― Interpreter of Maladies
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