“Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.”

“Drugs don’t work. They don’t even make you forget – only momentarily, because if something’s that painful, nothing’s going to make you forget it. You think they’ll fill the hole, but the hole just gets deeper… It’s like trying to fill in a hole without a spade.”

“Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside”

“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”

“The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.”

“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”

“Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.”

“Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within.”