Age of Vice Quotes

“You are who you are, the past is gone. It’s the present you must master now.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“If you use any of this, just remember, nothing will change, this is Kali Yuga, the losing age, the age of vice.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“They want me to have a beautiful surface and be rotten to the core, like they are.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“It is as clear as someone crying in church.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“It’s so easy to be charming when you’re rich.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Before Ajay took a breath he was already mourned.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“But this? This is not development. This is looting. If land is to be acquired, it must be done fairly. The people must be compensated, not only monetarily, but with jobs, with dignity, with a future. Not a Shunya future, a real future, a people’s future. Do you know what Shunya means? Nothing.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“The only thing he’s guilty of is ambition. Of rising above his station. Did my father cut corners on the way? Yes. This is India. The game is rigged, the rules are stacked, you people make the rules in the first place. You already have everything, and you don’t want to share. So sometimes things must be taken.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“But you scratch the surface, it’s crumbling, it’s dying, there’s no future on that miserable island. The same in America. You think India is poor? Go and travel around America. I couldn’t believe it. Meanwhile some backpacker in Paharganj wanders around crying about our poverty, shaking his head, taking pity on us, taking photos for the people back home.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Finally, understand this one thing. India is our country, not yours. You are guests here. We are great hosts, but don’t disrespect us in our own home.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Our dreams let people die.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Dean laughed. His laugh was the laughter of the defeated, the man at the end of his rope, with nothing to lose, the man with whom the gods have done their business.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“And smile. You’re a Wadia man now. No one will ever steal from you again.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“know you come from a place,” Daddy says, “where they hold many backward customs and beliefs. Many rules and customs that are true to the reality of your world. But we’re free of that here, and so you are free now. Do you understand?”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“hearts, for Negroni Sbagliato (the flavor of the month), the Campari, the Cocchi Storico Vermouth di Torino, and the Bisol Cartizze Prosecco Valdobbiadene laid out ready with the jigger, the rocks glass, the ice bucket and tongs, the orange and lemon, the paring knife, and the fresh cigarettes, unwrapped, packed down, opened, the first two poking out, one slightly higher than the other.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“It gets stolen, sold on the black market. To whom? Private hospitals? Who steals it? Who sells it? Who owns the private hospitals? You know who. There’s a pattern emerging. Everything public ends up stripped down, sold, taken away.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“For a moment he can take a flight of fancy—scandalous, unbearable to hold it for more than a second—that he is Sunny himself, that Neda is his, that he has a normal life, a life where he is in control.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“These men,” Dean was saying, “are heroes to the people from whom they steal, whose very lives they destroy.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“They stood side by side, old friends who'd fast become strangers, with no words of the thing that had come between them.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“To talk to you was to travel the globe.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“He sits halfway between holy and profane.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“whom they steal, whose very lives they destroy.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“I don’t expect you to marry the man or even the family, I expect you to marry the business.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Not just pleasure, not really, more like the stanching of a wound, more like the holding of a tide, a sacrifice, negating the trauma of his birth.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“There’s nothing you could have done.” “There’s nothing I could have done! And it all just keeps happening”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Money’s a fucking curse.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Ajay is the beating heart of Sunny’s world. Wordless, faceless, content.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“He feels blessed, content. But he tells himself in the dark: You know how precarious life can be.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“The clothes, the well-groomed features, the car, they cannot hide the essential poverty of his birth; it’s smell is stronger than any liquor or cologne.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“You think I don’t know,” Bunty says, “about the trafficking. About those girls?” “I assumed you turned a blind eye.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice