Maruti Sridhar

“Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.”
― Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing

“But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.”
― Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why

“Time, plenty of it came to the rescue here: Kelly was to engage in self-expression. In Jake's vocabulary this was a vague term applied to activities like swearing and children's art but in the present context it evidently meant something more specific. The girl at once left her chair, sat down on one of the more affluent patches of carpet and clasped her knees.”
― Kingsley Amis