Private India Quotes
"Whether it was tidy or left smeared with chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and telltale buttmarks on the recliner, fourteen minutes was what she had to clean each room."
"Six minutes to service this room, thought Sunita. Maybe seven."
"How the hell am I going to clean this up in fourteen minutes?"
"The bull horns are an artistic contrivance."
""The word Monday means day of the moon."
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight," laughed Zafar.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
"I’m coming to get you, bitch. Wait for me. Trust me, it’s worth waiting for."
"Oh bloody hell," he said, realizing the problem. It wasn’t the sort of shop where you just went inside. Oh no. You had to be allowed in."
"Good day to you, sirs," she said. "How may I help you?"
"How long for the Oakleys, Ria?" "Two years," Ria said without glancing up from her magazine.
"I don’t want to buy a pair," explained Santosh. "I want to know who else has bought a pair."
"God, the lying cow—the waiting list is only six months."
"You see? He’d had his hair cut. And what did we find at the murder scenes? Strands of black hair, same shade as D’Souza. Strands of cut black hair."
He left it early." "Okay," said Santosh slowly. "Let’s be careful about this.
"Lara Omprakash was doing brilliantly as a heroine in Bollywood."
"Lara has never had time for anything besides her work and hobbies," said Jack, sidestepping the question deftly.
"If you can’t find a link between the victims then try finding what connects the props. The killer is trying to tell you something," said Jack quietly.
"Nasty." Santosh kept quiet. Any reference to drinking inspired loathing and longing within him almost simultaneously.
"I was here all night," said the producer, not seeming to take any offense at the aggressive line of questioning.
"Why tie a scarf to the steering wheel of investigating detectives? Nothing about him suggested he was into playing games with cops."
"In medieval times, an animal or human sacrifice would have been the norm."
"You only realize the value of air when one is deprived of it and one only begins to value life in the face of death."
"My mother always predicted that I would be famous."
"He had sold newspapers on the pavements, washed cars at parking lots, prepared tea on railway station platforms, and even picked pockets."
"Men who are very active in their professional lives tend to be equally active in their personal ones," offered Munna sagely.
"But if I find you harboring a murderer again, I shall crush your balls with a walnut cracker. Is that fucking clear, motherfucker?"
"It’s party time, my friend. I do not want you to think that the Mumbai police are poor hosts. We are capable of showing our guests a good time."
"According to the government’s own statistics, a woman is now raped in India every twenty minutes. Even though the number of sex offenses has increased, the number of convictions is falling."
"Later tonight, my face will be firmly emblazoned on the retinas of your eyes. You will be incapable of forgetting it—forever."
"Policing is about keeping as many balls as one can in the air while simultaneously protecting one’s own."
"Unlike a piece of wood which can turn out too short when you cut it, if a piece of metal is botched, we simply wait, reheat, and give it another go. There are always second chances—both in metal and in men."
"It’s not about that—" began Santosh. "Then what exactly is it about, my friend?"
"I am quietly working along with the team that is planting saplings in the front garden of your bungalow. Luckily, all the workers are temporary hires and do not recognize each other."
"Welcome to the Mumbai Hilton. I thought you might like a little room service."
"The crowd roared its approval as Ragini warmed to her theme."
"We’re hoping to rid the world of a satanic organization that prevents us from achieving our holy and pure aims. With Allah on our side, how can there be any obstacles in the way?"
"Simply repealing a discriminatory law has not changed the fact that members of these communities are still treated unfairly. The ones who manage to become educated and find employment usually try to dissociate themselves from anything that could link them to their own communities."
"I don’t need to verify the contents because I have no intention of paying you."
"The foundation was established by a wealthy Parsi banker. It ran several charitable projects including a children’s orphanage in Mumbai. Unfortunately, the trustees were accused of siphoning off a substantial part of the endowment."
"The yoga instructor who visited the judge’s home three times per week was also the instructor to Priyanka Talati and Lara Omprakash."
"In Mumbai any rule could be broken—as long as you had the right friends."
"Why didn’t you tell me you’d spent time in prison on drug charges?"
"Don’t you have the money?" replied Patel.
"The DNA we found on Elina Xavier is female DNA. Your murderer is a woman."
"I was an orphan too. She abandoned you, didn’t she, to the orphanage?"
"I was young. And a fool. A terrible combination."
"In a firefight, he would draw a dismal third."
"Your boy Hari flipped out and put a bullet in Aakash."
"And then Zafar jerked, as though electricity had been passed through him."
"You’re just going to let me leave, with me knowing you’re behind a bomb about to explode in Mumbai?"
You shouldn’t have waited," said Mubeen. "You could have made it out without me.
It’s my fault. I screwed up," she said. "Thank you for helping us.
"I was glad to be there for the takedown."
"And although I’d never met her before today, now that she’d cleaned up, I recognized her from photos in the society pages."
"She would rather die than let anyone know what had happened to her daughter and herself."