“Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside down. It colors your waking moments, and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“And for the first time in my life, I saw something new reflected in the eyes that saw me. Respect. It taught me a very valuable lesson. That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“One does not question a miracle.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“Till now, my conception of love has been based entirely on what I have seen in Hindi films, where the hero and the heroine make eye contact, and whoosh, some strange chemistry sets their hearts beating and their vocal chords tingling, and the next you see of them they are off singing songs in Swiss Villages and American shopping malls.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“You must never take a direct route to your destination.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“There are those who will say that I brought this upon myself. By dabbling in that quiz show. They will wag a finger at me and remind me of what the elders in Dharavi say about never crossing the dividing line that separates the rich from the poor. After all, what business did a penniless waiter have to be participating in a brain quiz? The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“There is some pleasure even in pain. A sweet ecstasy.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“Your beauty is an elixir.
Which has given an orphan life.
Lovesick I will die, from the grave I will cry
Should you decline to become my wife.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“Confuse your trail, lose your trail.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“The city may have chosen to ignore the ugly growth of Dharavi, but a cancer cannot be stopped simply by being declared illegal. It still kills with its slow poison.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“After all, what business did a penniless waiter have to be participating in a brain quiz? The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“I may have entered her body, but now I want to enter her mind.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“You have been counting rosary beads for an era
But the wandering of your mind does not halt
Forsake the beads in your hand
And start moving the beads of your heart.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“appearances can be deceptive and the dividing line between good and bad is very thin indeed.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside down. It colors your waking moments and fills your dreams.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
Vikas Swarup
Born place: Allahabad, India
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“Everyone breaks a little sometimes. That doesn't make you weak. It makes you wounded. And I will always be there to help you heal”
― J. Kenner, quote from Release Me
“Still, the one who best understands the significance of light is not the electrician, not the painter, not the photographer, but the man who lost his sight in adulthood. There must be the wisdom of deficiency in deficiency, just as there is the wisdom of plenty in plenty.”
― Kōbō Abe, quote from The Face of Another
“Thank you,” she whispers.
It’s in that moment that I know I’ll do whatever I can to make this family smile, because it’s so going to be worth it.”
― Heidi McLaughlin, quote from My Unexpected Forever
“Sometimes I wanted to dance and laugh with my friends until midnight, and sometimes I wanted to screen all calls and hide away with a tragic novel and a bag of candy. Sometimes I spend an hour trying to pretty myself up, and sometimes I could barely be bothered to comb the knots out of my hair before I left the house.
Sometimes I wanted to know what it felt like to tell a boy all my secrets. Other times, that seemed as impossible as waking up one morning to find myself fluent in a foreign language.
Sometimes I felt better alone that I did with people. And sometimes that just felt lonely.”
― quote from Sixteenth Summer
“In all our times together so far, this was the first time I felt we were enjoying ourselves, without strain or any sense of difference of age or deference, concession or inequality. It was, I thought afterwards, the first time we had met as ourselves, untrammelled, unguarded and in tune.”
― Aidan Chambers, quote from Dying to Know You
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