A Perfect Pledge Quotes

“And the family who had refused to acknowledge the woman's illness and who had all immunized themselves from concern by conceiving their own problems, now performed their duties.”
― Rabindranath Maharaj, A Perfect Pledge

“The minute he arrived at his own parents' house and was confronted by the smallness of the rooms, the old walls covered with dusty calendars, and passepartout pictures of animals, the electrical wires snaking and dangling loosely from the ceiling, the buzzing fluorescent lamp that never lit properly, transforming the house into a gloomy, dusty cubicle, he wanted to return to the city. He could not properly splice in movie landscapes here, because everything was too familiar, and because he was too connected with the droning quarrels.”
― Rabindranath Maharaj, A Perfect Pledge

“This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change.”
― Rabindranath Maharaj, A Perfect Pledge

“Your legacy. Hard work but honest. You don't have to outsmart anybody or depend on anyone when you own one plot of land. 'Cause it's always there.”
― Rabindranath Maharaj, A Perfect Pledge