Articles: Amitav Ghosh - Quotes

• “How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?”

  ― The Hungry Tide

• “To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”

  ― The Glass Palace

• “Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.”

  ― The Shadow Lines

• “Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.”

  ― The Great Derangement

• “We are happy we soar very high and when we are not, we fall into the depths of an abyss.”

  ― River of Smoke

• “We must be the willow, not the oak, in the lowering storm.”

  ― River of Smoke