Lesli

“The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“The best way to describe what he felt would be to say that first he was blind, then he could see everything. This is what it felt like to be a bomb. You were coiled up, majestic with blackness, unaware that the universe outside you existed, and then a wire snapped and ripped open your eyelids all the way around and you had a vision of the world that was 360 degrees, and everything in your purview was doomed by seeing.”
― Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs

“Mr. and Mrs. Khurana were forty and forty, and they had suffered the defining tragedy of their lives, and so all other competing tragedies were relegated to mere facts of existence.”
― Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs

“Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.”
― Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs