4 Quotes by Nikita Deshpande

Life...is not some contest in suffering.’ He threw the cigarettebutt out the window. ‘We’re not getting any awards or anything for bearing with pain, are we?

In college, they taught us that all great works of literature begin in the middle of things. People are long born, hearts have already been broken and families destroyed, yet, the real trouble is still to unfold. And that is why I will never write a great work of literature. I have way too many middles to choose from.

Why can’t I have both? Haan? I want the consent part but I also want to be taken by surprise. How hard is that? What’s wrong with a girl wanting to be Goslinged and kissed, damn it!

Two roads diverged in Delhi and Jish Guha took the one that led straight to a seedy bar in Paharganj.