A Play for the End of the World Quotes

“In India, he thought he might bury the ghost of Misha and the ghost of Pan Doktor and the story of the house on Krochmalna Street, but this is no more possible now than it had been thirty years ago, stepping off the barge into this city that sheltered him. He will keep his ghetto memories. They will weary him. They will question his time on this earth, and they will challenge his love for Lucy. This he cannot change, though with the years, he might grow a second heart: he might love this world more than his ghosts.”
― Jai Chakrabarti, A Play for the End of the World

“Thank you for your kindness,” he tells her, knowing his smile will translate while his words will not.”
― Jai Chakrabarti, A Play for the End of the World

“In ways that matter, he and the professor are of a similar breed. It’s been easy to get along with a man who holds his past at bay, makes few allowances for love or fellowship. He won’t ever know Rudra Bose deeply, and there’s a pleasure in this distance, at least some comfort.”
― Jai Chakrabarti, A Play for the End of the World

“After the turbulence had passed, she’d grown angry at Jaryk, because he hadn’t been next to her to tell a joke or even to hold her hand. Her compassion for him began to dry up as a new wound opened.”
― Jai Chakrabarti, A Play for the End of the World