SUMANTA ROYCHOWDHURY
“The battlefield disappeared, and with it, the illusion that there had ever been a battlefield. For this was no war of occupation, but a war of quick penetration and obliteration.”


“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.”
― The Girl on the Train
― The Girl on the Train

“before he fell asleep, Molière’s words came to him, strangely comforting: Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun

“Rumour-mongers are the original fourth estate,”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun

“Perhaps it’s the return of Saturn. Every twenty-nine years the planet returns to the same point in the sky that it occupied at the moment of our birth.”
― Adultery
― Adultery
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