Indian Fiction Quotes

“We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“The Great Socialist himself is said to have embezzled one billion rupees from the Darkness, and transferred that money into a bank account in a small, beautiful country in Europe full of white people and black money.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“If Allah has willed it that way... He must have better plans for you child...”
― K. Hari Kumar, When Strangers meet..

“There’s a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain...”
― Renita D'Silva, Monsoon Memories

“Every act of goodness it's born from our desire to be happy.”
― Udai Yadla

“But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.”
― Renita D'Silva, Monsoon Memories

“Even the Sun shed tears once in a while”
― Sheeja Jose, Goodbye Girl

“Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her heart gave a great, hurtful lurch, as though it were trying to leap out of her body to meet him. This, she thought. This is it. But it was only part of the truth. She would learn over the next years that love can feel a lot of different ways, and sometimes it can hurt a lot more.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Before We Visit the Goddess

“You don’t live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,’ Reena was indignant. ‘It’s five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut.”
― Renita D'Silva, Monsoon Memories

“What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?’‘You are saving your family.”
― Renita D'Silva, Monsoon Memories

“You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don’t run around naked.’‘Why?’‘They just don’t.”
― Renita D'Silva, Monsoon Memories

“Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?’ ‘No, Ma.’ ‘Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?”
― Renita D'Silva, Monsoon Memories

“She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. ‘Get to the point; don’t allow the subject to digress’ was one of them”
― Renita D'Silva, Monsoon Memories

“Every time you think of your dad, you’re
resurrecting him. Why shouldn’t he continue to live
in this world while resting in the other?”
― Clyde DeSouza, Maya

“..now, seated hunched over paper in a pool of Anglepoised light, I no longer want to be anything except what who I am. Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I', every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.”
― Salman Rushdie

“Policemen are often confronted with situations which baffle them at first. A certain crime scene may seem meaningless, but they have to derive some meaning out of it. They have to connect the dots, find the links, delve into its history, look for evidence, come up with a zillion theories and arrive at truth. The thing is, truth is always stranger than fiction.”
― Mahendra Jakhar, The Butcher of Benares

“I uttered the wisest thing that you must say to an angry woman - “I’m sorry.”
― Mita Jain, In Love of Honey, Money....and My Virgin Passport

“Oh Pia, I feel GOOD! Fully recovered!’ he always says in a dazzling tone that tells everyone within a ten-kilometre radius that he’s not.”
― Aditi Mathur Kumar, Soldier and Spice - An Army Wife's Life

“In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Oleander Girl

“She looked so beautiful, with every smile of hers, I was falling for her. She had the perfect set of teeth for the perfect face to make up that perfect smile.”
― Pritam Banikk, Two digit less love

“There is nothing more amazing than being with the one you love.”
― Shilpi, Hangover

“I meet his eyes and he arches his eyebrows. He knows. He knows I don’t really like Deepak. He knows I’ve been intending to break up with him for the last two months. He knows I would rather be with him. He knows all my deepest darkest secrets. That psychic velvet voiced God! Okay, I’m being irrational. He just raised his eyebrows. It’s nothing. Maybe it’s a habit. He probably raises his eyebrows hourly.”
― Anjali Kirpalani, Never Say Never

“Every happy moments looks perfect till it gets messy”
― Sheeja Jose, Goodbye Girl

“....they dressed for dinner and followed the strict discipline of upper class English families. The next morning they took me with them for the county fox hunt. Since I could not ride, I asked to be excused. But I did get to see the ritual of dress, the hierarchy observed among hunting types, the blowing of horns, the handling of beagles, a poor fox being run to death and having its tail (brush) cut off. Having achieved their object, glasses of sherry were passed round like prasad after a religious service.”
― Khushwant Singh, Truth, Love & A Little Malice

“A community that engages readers and culturally enabled people to connect, support and harness intellectual and cultural capabilities.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Sialkot Saga

“The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.”
― Anurag Shourie, An Ode Towards Hope –

“The three flower shops were obliterated. The petals of the once-dewy flowers and their sellers' flesh burnt together. The people reacted and, unlike the birds, they did not react in unison. They ran towards the narrow streets near the masjid, trampling over the old and limping beggars. They pushed and shoved and cursed and cried. The birds circled in the air, pitying the humans who had lost their humanity.”
― Rohit Gore, A Darker Dawn

“He could not help but admire his posters every time he saw them---the son of a rickshaw puller, now the chief of a prominent political party in this town, who was expected to win by an unprecedented margin of votes in the coming elections. There were many people in the party who begrudged his presence, his power, but they could do nothing. The people of Amrapur loved him and his speeches. Some people called them inflammatory, divisive, and harmful to the peace and harmony of the town. A smile spread across his face every time he heard that word. Has anything ever been achieved by harmony? What would the leaders do with harmony? Why would people come to listen to his speeches in droves if they wanted harmony? Elections can never be won by harmony.”
― Rohit Gore, A Darker Dawn

“There is only one happiness in life. To love, and to be loved”
― Shilpi, Hangover

“Rains are an act of God in India. And God as we know is a law unto himself. He is not responsible, neither is He accountable. That is the essence of God: He gives with two hands and takes away with eight more. Why else would Indian gods and goddesses have several pairs of hands?”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Ravan & Eddie