💬 Quotes

"Cryptography is the last line of defense in the information age."

"Total security is an illusion. It is a myth that we tell ourselves to sleep at night."

"Every code can be broken. It is just a matter of time and processing power."

"That is the price you pay for being a foreigner, you watch the world go by from a window."

"For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy—a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts."

"He hates that his name is both absurd and obscure, that it has nothing to do with who he is, that it is neither Indian nor American but of all things nameless."

"Wear your sari, Gogol said, as if it were a costume she was wearing for his benefit, rather than the way she had lived for thirty years."

"He had spent his life trying to run away from his family, his heritage, his name; now, he realizes that he is inevitably tied to them by the very threads he tried to sever."

"The name, which once felt like a barrier, now seems like a bridge—a vessel that carries the weight of a life lived between two worlds."

"Sometimes you have to break your own heart to save your life."

"We all carry secrets, but some secrets have the weight to pull you under for good."

"You don't really know a person until you see who they become when they have everything to lose."

"Survival isn't about being the strongest; it’s about being the one who refuses to let go of the surface."

"Kindness from a stranger is often just a different form of manipulation."

"The past doesn't stay buried; it just waits for the tide to go out."

"I seem to be a man who is not a man, but the projection of a man who is not a man."

"The library is a sphere whose exact center is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."

"Reality is not always probable, or likely."

"He thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars."

"At that time I used to say: I am dreaming that I am dreaming. I am dreaming that I am dreaming that I am dreaming."