Jake

“Don’t worry about it, Asif,” I said. The boy looked so devastated. I’ve come to respect Muslims, sir. They’re not the brightest lot, except for those four poet fellows, but they make good drivers, and they’re honest people, by and large, although a few of them seem to get this urge to blow trains up every year. I wasn’t going to fire Asif over this. But I did ask him to find out the address of the boy, the one we had killed.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love—or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“the singers showed signs of embarking on another one. Disenchantment observed with a sigh that Bao-yu was dreadfully bored.”
― Cáo Xuěqín, The Golden Days

“Yes, it’s true: a few hundred thousand rupees of someone else’s money, and a lot of hard work, can make magic happen in this country.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger