Suranya Sengupta > Suranya's Quotes

“One could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as greed or lust; a pure, painful and primitive desire, a longing for everything that was not in oneself, a torment of the flesh, that carried one beyond the limits of one's mind to other times and other places, and even, if one was lucky, to a place where there was no border between oneself and one's image in the mirror.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines

“How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Let nobody fool you, most couples are conjoined on earth.
The mismatches, now they are a different story. They are made in heaven
”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“Where do songs go when you cease to hear them? Where does the turbulence of the air disappear after thousands of birds flap their wings homeward at eventide? Where are the cries of the Rajput women who spatter their red palm prints on the wall and leap into the flames of johar? Where is my childhood, my catapult, my broken slate, my first parrot, my youth and first sin and all those that followed, where is my old age and the first time I saw the woman from Merta? Ask Gambhiree. She knows it all.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“Being in the right has got nothing to do with courage or exceptional bravery. The forces of evil will fight just as enthusiastically or fiercely as the armies of righteousness.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“As you sow, so shall you reap has a neat ring to it but you are making a grievous mistake if you put your faith in that kind of cheap sentiment. There are no just deserts. The wages of sin are not necessarily hell and the path of goodness is often lined with treachery for the world is predicated upon the principle of randomness.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“If not absolution, I yelled, give me oblivion.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“people talk with a sense of wonderment about the incredible bravery of us Rajputs. This is missing the obvious. Whether it’s Father, my brothers, my ancestors, I or my countrymen, we are, it goes without saying, unsurpassedly fearless and valiant.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“Perhaps moksha lies in not thinking about the afterlife.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“Life teaches me a hundred things every day, and I forget ninety-nine of them, sometimes all hundred of them.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“Let nobody fool you, most couples are conjoined on earth. The mismatches, now they are a different story. They are made in heaven.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“But if detachment is really fear of failure and hence never putting oneself to the test, or if it’s fear of being hurt, humiliated or rejected, then one is closing all doors to life, to the possibilities of happiness, pain, dejection, achievement and experience. Reincarnation may be on the cards for most of us but we live this particular life, whether it is maya or whatever else, only once. This is our only chance to engage it. Excess”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“Nobody sang steamy overwrought songs to Rama, Vishnu or Shiva. What was the source of the irresistible attraction of the peacock-feathered god? How was he able to get away with the very things that would land any other man in jail for life? Did the women, in their heart of hearts, want to walk the streets with see-through, wet blouses and wait for some dashing young man with a peacock feather in his phenta to tug at their odhanis? Whatever”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“It’s not enough to be honest and loyal, frankly it doesn’t matter if you are not, so long as you are perceived to be so.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

“Was this how a mutiny was sparked? In a moment of heedlessness, so that one became a stranger to the person one had been a moment before? Or was it the other way around? That this was when one recognized the stranger that one had always been to oneself; that all one’s loyalties and beliefs had been misplaced?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

“This is my gift to you, this story that is also a song, these words that are a part of Fokir. Such flaws as there are in my rendition of it I do not regret, for perhaps they will prevent me from fading from sight, as a good translator should. For once, I shall be glad if my imperfections render me visible.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

“It would be enough; as an alibi for a life, it would do; she would not need to apologize for how she had spent her time on this earth.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

“Kanai, the dreamers have everyone to speak for them,' she said, 'But those who try to be strong, who try to build things - no one ever sees any poetry in that, do they?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

“Tell him,’ the woman said with a mocking smile, ‘tell him that what he sees is the creature’s member entering the body of its mate, doing what men and women must do ...”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
― Hafiz

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
― Hafiz of Shiraz

“Your heart and my heart
are very, very old friends.”
― Hafiz

“Every time I try to love someone,
I will end up falling in love with you,
All over again.”
― Suranya Sengupta

“What kind of a man do you want?" Pratap asked, eagerly.
"Someone to sweep me off my feet." Ajabde chuckled awkwardly avoiding his glance.
"Oh, a sweeper?" He teased with a lingering smile.
"What are you doing?" Ajabde asked as he grabbed her waist to help her off the horse.
"Trying to sweep you off your feet." He made her blush.”
― Suranya Sengupta, A Royal Accident