The Pinnacle Quotes

“Mumbai”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“Face it”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“Everything was better in Dubai; everything except the way the Indians and Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who built it all were treated of course.”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“You would still be unable to afford your mother’s medication”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“He knew too that there was no point blaming the rich because”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“Other people”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“Chunky fucking Malhotra. Bollywood bad boy. The Maharaja of Mumbai. Sweety’s ex.”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“The poor were powerless to escape retribution”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“People whispered that he was an agent of the Pakistani ISI”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“It was like King Midas had come to Mumbai”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“You still don’t understand”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“She should never have married a firangi. Good Indian girl like that. They should never have allowed it.”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“And those real Indians believed his talk of purity and traditional values and the rejection of the foreign things that weakened the noble spirit of the country. If they saw a video of him butt naked and knocking boots with some white girl from Ohio”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“She wasn’t some twenty-year-old who could just start again someplace else; she was a woman barely clinging to the right side of forty”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“It was a typical canyon of a Mumbai street”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle

“Not his country”
― Abir Mukherjee, The Pinnacle