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“It was entirely in keeping with his personality to become set on something and follow it, regardless of the consequences. To let an impulse become a compulsion, especially if he thought he was contributing to a cause greater than himself.”

“I was adapting to it, but at times like this, I remembered that just a day ago I had been someone else.”

“During all that time, I could never get beyond the mask, could never find the man I have known inside of him.”

“I was trying to reclaim remnants of the man I remembered,”

“At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I saw in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead.”

“Then, after a time, the boar faded into the backdrop, like all else that we had passed on our way from the border, and I was staring into the future again”

“While we were in that corridor, in that transitional space, nothing could touch us. We were neither what we had been nor what we would become once we reached our destination.”

“I would tell you the names of the other three, if it mattered…Besides, we were always strongly discouraged from using names: We were meant to be focused on our purpose, and “anything personal should be left behind.” Names belong belongs to where we had come from, not to who we were while embedded in Area X.”

introduction by karen joy fowler
“To think we have attained, or someday might attain, a complete clarity, much less bend the world to our will, vastly overestimates our powers. To expect certainty is just another example of human hubris.”

introduction by karen joy fowler
“The dangers are both large and small. But the fact that so many animals flee at the sight of us has allowed us to indulge in a sense of our own primacy. We are used to being seen. We are used to seeing ourselves as powerful. We are used to feeling that we are above rather than inside the natural world.”

The Treatment of Bibi Haldar

The Third and Final Continent 5/5

This Blessed House 4/5

He looked at her face, which it occurred to him, had not grown out of its girlhood, the eyes on troubled, the pleasing feature is unfair, as if they still had to settle into some sort of permanent expression. Nicknamed after our nursery rhyme, she had yet to shed a childhood endearment.

She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of ice cream, or dropping a letter in a mailbox…as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate, or see.

Mrs. Sen’s 3/5

Sexy 5/5

beautiful

It means loving someone you don’t know.

He complained about the hair on his shoulders, but Miranda saw him perfect, and refused to imagine him any other way.

A Real Durwan 3/5

Interpreter of Maladies 4/5

characters 5/5 plot 4/5

He looked at her, and her red plaid skirt and strawberry T-shirt, a woman not yet 30, who loves neither her husband, nor her children, who had already fallen out of love with life.

Ordinarily, he sped back to Puri, using a shortcut, eager to return home, scrub his feet and hands with sandalwood soap, and enjoy the evening newspaper, and a cup of tea that his wife would serve him in silence. The thought of that silence, something to which he’d long been resigned, now oppressed him.

Mr. Kapasi experienced a mild and pleasant shock. It was similar to a feeling he used to experience long ago…unencumbered by his own efforts. In those moments, Mr. Kapasi used to believe that all was right with the world, that all struggles were rewarded, that all of life’s mistakes made sense in the end. The promise that he would hear from Mrs. Das nw filled him with the same belief.

She did not behave in a romantic way towards her husband, and yet she had used the word [romantic] to describe him. He wondered if Mr. and Mrs. Das were a bad match, just as he and his wife were. Perhaps they, too, had little in common apart from three children and a decade of their lives.

When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine 4/5

characters 4/5 (wish they had more depth but understand it is the perspective of a child) plot 4/5 writing 4/5