Death in the Air Quotes

“I love money. Money is great. Money is energy. But like any energy, it can turn destructive. You shouldn’t hoard it. Because it corrodes anything it touches for too long.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“I always think of money as food. You must consume it at the right moment. You should not waste it. And if you keep it for too long, it goes bad.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“I’ve never thought of it this way before, but immigration still has a real cost. You might be able to escape the bad stories, but you also get rid of all of the good fortune. You have no roots.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“Money wants to go out and play. It wants to be used generously. To make people happy. Not to be thrown away in a casino like it’s valueless. Or to be spent on a mausoleum of Birkins in every color.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“chips,” Catherine replied, her tone flat. “Because it’s pretty hard to stop after just one.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“Let’s burn that bridge when we come to it.” Catherine sighed. “He’s going to be so pissed. I promised him I gave all this up. Years ago.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“Why on earth is this guy here? And I’m sorry, but why do you have a white person teaching Indian people how to meditate?”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“India, the land of fur-wearing vegetarians,”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“Not as much of one as you’d think.” Chris laughed. “There seems to be a global class of pretty dubious rich people who spend their lives going from spa to spa.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“I knew her well enough to know that lots of people had lots of reasons to kill her.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“But instead they make having an Indian passport a millstone around your neck, something to throw away at the first opportunity.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“think she may have met her husband in Ibiza. And then they got married there. On a bank holiday weekend.” He wrinkled his nose. “You know what, actually, that’s a little too much. I think I made that last part up.” He paused. “Also, she smelled like hospital.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“It’s how she looks at me.” Lala turned to him. “As I said, I have perfect vision. When she looks at me, she’s smug. She looks at me with pity. And nobody looks at me with pity.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“Song lyrics definitely stopped making literal sense at some point. These days, most songs don’t tell a simple story, instead dealing in pseudo-poetry and fractured images. I mean, what the heck is a “wonderwall,” anyway?”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“There was only so much of Parvati and Ro’s spiritualism he could take.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“you avoid things, you still store them in your body. Back pain. So I just want to say I’m really sorry you won’t be celebrated at the opening tomorrow.” “It’s for the best.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“In general, I actually think married people and people in relationships are much lonelier than single people. When you’re in a relationship, you engage with the world so much less.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“I finally see that I’ve spent my entire life sticking out. I’m almost always the only person in any given room who looks like me, so people look at me more. Which is totally understandable. I’m not blaming anyone, but it’s still exhausting.” Ro shrugged.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“He thought photographs were nothing more than the murder of moments in time.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“After birth, death is the only thing that every soul on this Earth has in common.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“Money wants to deepen experiences. To enrich. To create luck. Texture. In the end, money wants to be good fortune.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“I also think God lives in algorithms on the internet.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“Immigration is hard. It cuts off family stories. And family energy. It’s almost impossible not to lose the richness, the texture.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“When you behave with honor, life is simple. Problems fall away.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“As long as I tried my best, I’ll forgive myself if I made a mistake. Just knowing I made the best decision I could at the time is enough. And learning a lesson from it.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air

“When you have staff, you don’t carry keys. Someone opens the door.”
― Ram Murali, Death in the Air