Sacred Games Quotes

“He has asked himself sometimes if solitude is preferable to boredom or betrayal, which seemed to be the inevitable end of all happy love affairs, of all happy marriages. People clung to one another out of fear. K.D. has preferred the integrity of being alone. He was a realist, he is. He has the strength to face death alone.”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“People had stances, they threw out opinions, they made ferocious noises, but decisions were often made in a flurry of competing silences, and what was not said mattered more than what was.”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“if you want to live in the city you have to think ahead three turns, and look behind a lie to see the truth and then behind that truth to see the lie.”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“human beings were stupid, they circled round and around and finally came back to where they started, as if pulled back by the steady tug of an inescapable cord. But”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“Maybe this was why people had kids, so that when you could no longer travel with your parents, your children made all train trips new again.”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“The truth is that human beings like to be ruled. They will talk and talk about freedom, but they are afraid of it. Overpowered by me, they were safe, and happy.”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“...the sodden, sweaty weariness of his own body, the whisky misery of it.”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“There was the same roughened sweetness about the voice, that old-world heartbreak that floated off worn vinyl albums, full of pain but strong as the edge of a curving Avadhi dagger.”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“Aaiyejhavnaya”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“Men, Shalini said sometimes, there is madness in men. He always kept quiet, but he always wanted to say, the madness is in their bones, not in their hearts, not in their heads.”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“alone.”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“Don’t worry. I won’t forgive you –’ Bashir Ali blanched ‘– because there’s nothing to forgive. We are both trapped, you on that side of the door and me on this. Do what they tell you to do, get it over with and go home to your children. Nothing will happen to you. Not now and not later. I give you my word.’ There was a pause. ‘The word of Ganesh Gaitonde.’ By”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

“In this city, the rich had some room, and the middle class had less, and the poor had none.”
― Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games