Aamil Syed

“There was something capricious about God. How could one expect perfect submission from those who are imperfect? How could one create desire and then expect everyone to pull the plug on it? And if God were capricious, then God was imperfect. If God were imperfect, God was not God.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

“Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Every child needs a father. Even if he turns out to be Darth Vader.”
― Jackson Radcliffe, The Yoga Sutras

“What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom