Lesli

“Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.”
― Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs

“Back in the market, people collapsed, then got up, their hands pressed to their wounds, as if they had smashed eggs against their bodies in hypnotic agreement and were unsure about what to do with the runny, bloody yolk. Most”
― Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs

“No action is safe from meaning.”
― Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs

“The best way to describe what he felt would be to say that first he was blind, then he could see everything. This is what it felt like to be a bomb. You were coiled up, majestic with blackness, unaware that the universe outside you existed, and then a wire snapped and ripped open your eyelids all the way around and you had a vision of the world that was 360 degrees, and everything in your purview was doomed by seeing.”
― Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs