A Rising Man Quotes

“Abominable business this MacAuley affair,’ said Peters to no one in particular. ‘Absolutely dreadful,’ tutted Mrs Tebbit. ‘It makes you wonder if any of us are safe in our beds.’ I could have pointed out that MacAuley hadn’t been murdered in his bed, but five miles away in an alley behind a whore house.”
― Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man

“I’m not exactly a patient man these days, my full measure of restraint having been expended sitting in a trench for several years acting as target practice for German artillery.”
― Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man

“He was a kind man, and if there was one thing the war had taught me, it was that when you meet such a person, the sensible thing to do is to take advantage of them as much as possible, for you never know when you’ll come across such a gift-horse again.”
― Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man

“You’re no use to me dead.’ ‘Yes, sir. I’d not wish to cause you any inconvenience, sir.”
― Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man

“there was probably more chance of the good Lord himself deciding to smite MacAuley with a bolt of lightning for a bit of a laugh. In my experience, the Almighty could be capricious like that.”
― Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man

“the British and the Indians are like an old married couple. They’ve been together for what seems like forever; they fight and might think they hate each other, but at heart there will always be some mutual love there.”
― Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man

“I needed to make sense of it all, and whisky generally helped.”
― Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man

“Always scheming and plotting . . . and talking. Why use one word when a paragraph will do? That’s the Bengali way.”
― Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man

“Some men are put off by intelligence in a woman. I find it intoxicating.”
― Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man