26 Quotes by Manil Suri

Riyadh or Sharjah weren't exactly high on my list.

The future, as always, felt too abstract to worry about, too nebulous, too otherworldly. What mattered was the here and now.

I made sure we fucked whenever the conversations got too emotional or too long - we weren't lesbians, after all.

...the difference between the tolerant and the extremist was not so great. "Looking into the Other, we can always find something of ourselves within.

It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well.

Lucky are those that have no choice but to go on this path, but don't tell me that you are not angry.

What future did the Jazter see for himself, exactly? Would his days of shikar continue indefinitely, or did he dare look beyond the beaches and the train stations and the alleys? Could he, in some part buried deep within, secretly crave conventionality? (Or was that too much of a heresy?)

Perhaps this was the greatest genius of the cyber jihadis: the monopoly they clinched on information. They realized how helplessly addicted the population had become to knowing in this information age. So what if news was tainted or unreliable? - people needed their daily fix.

See those people holding hands?" he asked at the candlelight vigil outside the still-smoking Taj Hotel. "They're neither Hindus nor Muslims, but citizens of Bombay first.