# Quote — Amit Chaudhuri, Real Time

> ‘This second time round, she’d discovered that to be happy was not so much a self-sufficient, spontaneous emotion, such as you might feel in relation to a dream or a secret, but a way of reacting to the rest of the world; that to be happy this time, she must curb the natural human instinct to look up at the sky, with its all-encompassing definition, and gaze towards the immediate ground and horizon, with its lack of shape, or abode, or clear ending.’

- Author: [Amit Chaudhuri](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri.md)
- Book: [Real Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/real-time.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Amit_Chaudhuri#Real_Time_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/real-time/this-second-time

## More from this book

> ‘I’m uncomfortable beginning at the beginning. It’s not because I’m clever, but because it’s a difficult thing, writing.’

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/real-time/im-uncomfortable-beginning.md)

> ‘... the menu’s a delirious poem/on which the names of Moghlai and Punjabi and Parsi/

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/real-time/the-menus-a-delirious.md)