“She had tried to steer me towards vertiginous heels again - why are these people so incredibly keen on crippling their female customers? I began to wonder if cobblers and chiropractors had established some fiendish cartel.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“NOTHING I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write about. That can’t be done in Kashmir. It’s not sophisticated, what happens here. There’s too much blood for good literature. Q 1: Why is it not sophisticated? Q 2: What is the acceptable amount of blood for good literature?”
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
“The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.”
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
“I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“There was no tour guide on hand to tell her that in Kashmir nightmares were promiscuous. They were unfaithful to their owners, they cartwheeled wantonly into other people’s dreams, they acknowledged no precincts, they were the greatest ambush artists of all. No fortification, no fence-building could keep them in check. In Kashmir the only thing to do with nightmares was to embrace them like old friends and manage them like old enemies.”
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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