“I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.”
“-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid.”
“Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.”
“Find what you want. I will find you.”
“...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.”
“How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.”
“Una curva de la calle puso ante su vista el campanario de la catedral de Westminster, la forma fálica más descarada del horizonte londinense.”
“It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.”
“Was he willing to blend into the life of another human being for the rest of his days, and have hers blend into his? That, of course, was the Bible’s bottom line on marriage: one flesh. Not separate entities, not two autonomous beings merely coming together at dinnertime or brushing past one another in the hallway, holding on to their singleness, guarding against invasion. One flesh!" (p. 207).”
“Most of us, Ogu, live with a vague dissatisfaction, if we are lucky. Living as we do, upon us is imposed a particular rhythm - birth, education, a job, marriage, then birth again, but we all have minds don't we?
For most Indians of your age, just getting any job is enough. You were more fortunate for you had options before you.
These sound like paternal homilies, don't they, but you've always had surrogate parents, your aunts, and then in Delhi, your Pultukaku, and we've not really spent much time together.”
“But any religion would be found lacking if judged solely by its human servants.”
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