Sachin Kundalkar Quotes & Sayings

When they left, I saw four or five black-and-white photographs I had taken of you, peeping from the file. They'd faded a little over time and were stuck to each other. Delicately, i separated them. — Sachin Kundalkar

I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things. — Sachin Kundalkar

How did I acquire those habits? Perhaps that's what happens during he forging of a relationship: if nothing else, you adopt some of the other person's habits. It makes you feel those adoptions, make him one of you.

Have you picked up habits from me? Do you draw circles with a finger on your thali when you have finished eating? Do you, every once in a while, squeeze shaving cream on to your toothbrush? DO you sleep with a knee drawn up to you, the bedclothes kicked away? Do you fold the newspaper neatly and put it where you found it, when you are done?

Yesterday, when a cobalt blue smudge of wall ended up on my hand, I wiped on my trouser without thinking. — Sachin Kundalkar

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

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. — Sachin Kundalkar

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? — Sachin Kundalkar

I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies. — Sachin Kundalkar

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? — Sachin Kundalkar

Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling? — Sachin Kundalkar

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks. — 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. — Sachin Kundalkar

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. — Sachin Kundalkar

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. — Sachin Kundalkar

Once i watched you wake up, you had the same frown. "When one gets up, there is a moment when everything looks odd and strange. — Sachin Kundalkar

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

I took my clothes out of the cupboard and looked at myself in the mirror. I dropped the wet towel. i took a long, clear-eyed look at myself. that i was different was nowhere apparent. — Sachin Kundalkar

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring. — Sachin Kundalkar

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. — Sachin Kundalkar

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. — Sachin Kundalkar

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. — Sachin Kundalkar