Sachin Kundalkar

“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.”

“I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things.”

“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.”

“We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who'd just smoked a cigarette et cetra. Another list. The things we loved: strong coffee, Matisse, Rumi, summer rain, bathing together, Tom Hanks, rice pancakes, Cafe Sunrise, black-and-white photographs, the first quiet moments after you wake up in the morning.”

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

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

“Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks.”

“One of the fundamental rights of mankind should be that of wearing as many or as few clothes as one likes inside one's own home.”

“I'd be staring at you and thinking, I should ask, I should ask, I should ask; do you want to be in a stable monogamous relationship for the rest of your life?”

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

“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?”

“Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.”

“Whatever happens, happens for the best.' That's how any domestic counselling starts in a Marathi family. Everyone in every family has an inner psychiatrist who rises to the occasion with some home-made mottos, a few lines from Jagjit Singh ghazal. An older generation may quote Tukaram but underlying all this is the bedrock phase: Whatever happens, happens for the best.”