Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines Quotes
Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.
I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.
People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.
I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.
That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.
