Priyanka Taslim > Quotes

“I blast my angry-girl playlist of Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo from my laptop speakers”
― Priyanka Taslim, The Love Match

“I think I’m falling in love with him.”
― Priyanka Taslim, The Love Match

“I find those who judge other people’s children always end up weeping over their own one day.”
― Priyanka Taslim, The Love Match

“Rich people who say, “Money can’t buy you happiness,” are bald-faced liars, ’cause being poor sure doesn’t do it for me.”
― Priyanka Taslim, The Love Match

“Once upon a time, I had Amma to thank for my love of storytelling, but now she’s become the reason I guard my hopes so deep inside my chest, where a callous comment can’t blow them away like a stolen wish on dandelion fluff.”
― Priyanka Taslim, The Love Match

“Harun peers between us. “I have no idea what that is, but it sounds scary.” Dalia smiles beatifically. “So am I. Don’t forget.”
― Priyanka Taslim, The Love Match

“If the sun were eclipsed every day, you’d want to see it when it shone too,”
― Priyanka Taslim, The Love Match

“This— “Must be a love marriage,” Amma exclaims, in an awed whisper of her own. The women at our table begin to chatter anew. Someone says, “Kids these days, so reckless and romantic.” She spits the word like a curse. “Love marriages never last. Children should trust their elders to arrange suitable matches.” “The divorce rate is so high now,” another laments. “Nearly fifty percent.” I swallow the urge to inform them that’s only because women of older generations were blamed if they couldn’t make marriages work, and were looked down on with pity, no matter how young they were, if they became widowed like Amma. As if their lives began and ended with their husbands’. The rebuke burns down my throat, hotter than the not-particularly-spicy vindaloo, but if I unleash it, it’d be about as unseemly as throwing up.”
― Priyanka Taslim, The Love Match