Nitish Bhagath

“People talk of rage as something fluid; it boils, flows, spills over, scalds. For her, it is not any of these things. Instead it is a vast, frozen sea, solid as rock, unthawable. She has never seen the sea, but she knows it wraps around three-quarters of the world. All her anger is that and more.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

“I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this.”
― Neel Mukherjee

“It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

“Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others