Chetna Maroo > Quotes

“Khush said, “Aunt Ranjan’s afraid of us because she doesn’t know how
to find out what we’re thinking.”
― Chetna Maroo, Western Lane

“He said this, but with his eyes and his body – his shoulders, his throat, the white bones visible under his skin – he was telling us that in one day we had exposed him, left him behind, left him wide open to whatever was coming for him.”
― Chetna Maroo, Western Lane

“While Ma was alive, whenever we did something we weren’t supposed to, our relatives would bring Ma’s feelings into it, as if she was easy to hurt. But she wasn’t. It didn’t matter now. Now she was gone, our capacity to hurt her seemed infinite.”
― Chetna Maroo, Western Lane

“Five hundred and fifty-five matches played
without a single loss, Pa said, and we too stared at Pa’s Coke bottle while
we drank from ours.”
― Chetna Maroo, Western Lane

“What amazed me was that John McEnroe could come away from the umpire's chair with his shoulders slumped and his whole body depressed, and then lift his racket and play the way he played.”
― Chetna Maroo , Western Lane