The East Indian Quotes

“but I will be my own shelter, my landing place. Like a snail, I will carry home on my back, find it where I happen to be, make it from what I bear inside me.”
― Brinda Charry, The East Indian: A Novel

“The dead, simply by passing into death, somehow become innocent of all charges; it is we, the living, who bear the burden of guilt.

[Tony]”
― Brinda Charry, The East Indian

“My impulse was to strangle it, as one does with wounded things.”
― Brinda Charry, The East Indian: A Novel

“I too had to understand that previous lives are no longer accessible. That they are, in fact, quite gone. That one can learn, must learn, to live anew.”
― Brinda Charry, The East Indian: A Novel

“I wondered: dies any man ever fully know any woman? He thinks he does--she is the girl living down the lane, the girl fetching water from the communal well, the girl who speaks in accents familiar, and suddenly one day, he finds out that she has been a stranger all along, a dreamer of dreams he never suspected, a poet of verses better than his, or a more effective physician, or a saint, ultimately unavailable to him or any man.

[Tony]”
― Brinda Charry, The East Indian