“Once you start living together and you see the same person day in and day out, you begin to wonder: was it for this I struggled and toiled? Did he feel that way?”

“That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.”

“At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.”

“I didn't like Dali: now, like you, I do. Like you, I began to drink my Coke with a pinch of salt . Like you, I stopped bothering about ironed clothes. Like you, I sit with a dictionary while reading the papers. Like you, I sit on the compound wall after a bath.”

“I felt the kind of peace you feel when you come in from a hot afternoon and pour cold water over your feet.”

“Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling?”

“Once you start living together and you see the same person day in and day out, you begin to wonder: was it for this I struggled and toiled? Did he feel that way?”

“I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.”

“I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.”

“When you're looking for a relationship, the process weakens you. you feel you have to bear with whatever the other person wants. Each of the people I have met has made this a little more clear.”

“I wonder if I should believe what she says. But when you're not strong in yourself, anyone can tell you anything and you'll fall for it.”