Interpreter Of Maladies Quotes
"There is no better way to pay tribute to a book, in my opinion."
"Stories, as we know, aren’t necessarily born in order to coexist."
"What is a writer, if not an interpreter of maladies?"
"An interpreter is many things: a mediator between different languages; a well-equipped reader able to fully grasp the complexity of a text and impart its meaning."
"Today this theme is even more relevant, and the story of how hard it is to hold the fragments of three continents together is becoming the prevalent story of our times."
"Maladies, poorly interpreted, can’t be cured."
"The roads to Konarak are poor. Actually, it is a distance of fifty-two miles."
"In a way, more dependent on you than the doctor."
"Her sudden interest in him, an interest she did not express in either her husband or her children, was mildly intoxicating."
"Mrs. Das listened attentively, stroking her hair with a small plastic brush that resembled an oval bed of nails."
"Mr. Kapasi used to believe that all was right with the world, that all struggles were rewarded, that all of life’s mistakes made sense in the end."
"It was similar to a feeling he used to experience long ago when he would finally read a passage from a French novel and understand the words, unencumbered by his own efforts."
"As his mind raced, Mr. Kapasi experienced a mild and pleasant shock."
"He dreaded the possibility of a lost letter, the photograph never reaching him, hovering somewhere in Orissa, close but ultimately unattainable."
"He decided to tell her to confess the truth to Mr. Das. He would explain that honesty was the best policy."
"Mrs. Das reached into her straw bag to find a bandage which she taped over the cut on his knee."
"Miranda felt Rohin’s words under her skin, the same way she’d felt Dev’s."
"As you can see, our home is quite clean, quite safe for a child."
"She wore a shimmering white sari patterned with orange paisleys."
"Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Sen wore shoes; Eliot noticed several pairs lined on the shelves."
"Yet it was his mother, Eliot had thought, in her cuffed, beige shorts and her rope-soled shoes, who looked odd."
"By September the tiny beach house where he and his mother lived year-round was already cold."
"Mrs. Sen's apartment was warm, sometimes too warm."
"Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship."
"She had brought the blade from India, where apparently there was at least one in every household."
"At home that is all you have to do. Not everybody has a telephone."
"It is more sad even than your Beethoven, isn't it?"
"Each evening she insisted that his mother sit on the sofa."
"He was to call the neighbors in case of an emergency, and to let himself into the beach house after school."
"She planted a kiss on top of Christ’s head, then placed the statue on top of the fireplace mantel."
"He studied the items on the mantel. It puzzled him that each was in its own way so silly."
"Sanjeev did not know what love was, only what he thought it was not."
"He thought with a flicker of regret of the snapshots his mother used to send him from Calcutta."
"She had applied a bright blue mask to her face, was smoking and sipping some bourbon."
"We watched and worried. We wondered what to do."
"To express our indignation we began to take our shopping elsewhere; this provided us with our only revenge."
"We bought our children balloons and colored ribbons, purchased sweetmeats by the kilo."
"The days grew shorter, the evenings colder. We buttoned our sweaters and pulled up our socks."
"I don’t mind," Bibi told us. "It’s better to live apart from them, to set up house on my own."
"Before the coldest weeks set in, we had the shutters of the storage room repaired."
"Bibi had retreated into a deep and prolonged silence."
"She drank little, ate less, and began to assume an expression that no longer matched her years."
"I did not sleep well. Each night I had to keep the window wide open; it was the only source of air in the stifling room."
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season—something inevitable, but meaningless at the time."
"We bought an Instamatic camera with which to document our life together."
"As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination."