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“After we kiss, we have two options,’ she said. `Either we are girlfriend and boyfriend, or we call ourselves lovers. You pick.’ The word ‘lovers’ had an illicit feel to it. It spelt intimacy, and nakedness. It was much more serious than the flippant terms of boyfriend and girlfriend.” (A Touch of Eternity Quotes)
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“Anvesha tells me that it’s the arrogance that sets a storyteller apart from the pretenders who waste their time writing hackneyed quotes in flowery diaries and on Instagram pages. ‘The true storyteller has no time to say stuff like I write for myself, and my words are my babies. Writing is a job, Druvan. Just tell me if you can’t write this. There’s no shame in defeat,’ says Anvesha.”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“Being told that you’re loved is a lot similar to when you’re told you’re not loved. The churning of the stomach, the feeling of heaviness, the burden of love is a bit… horrendous. As heady as being in love is, it is also to live in fear; to lose your love is to live in misery.”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“Borun da, do you know what this means?’ said Baba. The same neighborhood, two best friends, the same date of birth, the same time of birth?’ `It’s called coincidence, Ramanuj da.’ `Soulmates,’ said Baba. ‘They are soulmates. Druvan Datta and Anvesha Mohan!”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“Compared to Sunita Aunty and Varun Uncle, who were tall and beautiful, my parents were cute, smiling gnomes. They looked more like roughly drawn cartoons than people. While Anvesha’s parents’ bodies had signs of grief and low-grade depression, my parents’ smiling faces gave the impression that they were the happiest couple in the world.”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“Every time I saw her, she seemed to have grown taller. Her clothes didn’t keep pace with her. Her skirts were now flirted sometimes by going over the knee, taut thigh muscles peeked out from beneath. Every time I looked at her, now my love for her was now tainted with the prickly, discomforting attraction I felt for her.”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“Girlfriend-Boyfriend are for amateurs, we? We are soul mates.”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“I don’t know how drugs work but I’m sure its close to scoring highest on a unit test. Was this my cult? The cult of a normal life? The cult of following the rules society has built over hundreds of years? The cult of normality?”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“If something happens to you, I will die of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy!’ ‘What’s that?’ ‘It’s an unexplained condition which got discovered in the 90s in Japan. Usually, in couples deeply in love, like us, their hearts beat in sync. Can you imagine that? It’s crazy. If one dies and that synchronicity breaks. The other dies of a swollen left ventricle and mysteriously weakened heart muscles. Your heart literally breaks, and you die.”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“My nervousness or reluctance wasn’t echoed by Anvesha. Once she had decided we should kiss, she was excited about it. Her excitement made my nervousness worse.”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“On the day of our births, our mothers were separated by just curtains, like many of the fifty screaming pregnant women in the maternity ward, all in different stages of labour, blood loss, maddening pain and childbirth. The two men waited outside. The door to the maternity ward kept opening and closing as the nurses brought out children like fresh loaves of bread out of an industrial oven.”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“The tenth standard was also the time for me to bear the full burden of adolescence. The age for other boys in my class had already come and gone. I, too, grew that year, my voice came out in angry stutters, and my eyes lingered on girls a little longer than necessary. Within a few months, I grew taller, hairier, stronger than Anvesha. I was suddenly – a man.”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“There were entire afternoons I spent wide awake thinking of how she had started straining against her clothes, how her lips had become thicker, of how even her arms and bare feet made my heart jump. The physicality of her being was now making her presence felt.”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
“What do you see our story as? Just tell me whatever comes to your head?’ `Umm. . an epic tale misery, suffering, love, and death. With a light sprinkling of mind-bending sex? And does this story strain against your insides like an untamed beast? Do you identify with men of God who say they are just a medium for a story that needs to be told? Will your mind not be at rest till you have said this story?”
Durjoy Datta
A Touch of Eternity
