Trisha Das > Quotes

“judgement and a ridiculously high-pitched voice, along with Marilyn Monroe hair and skimpy clothing. Let’s face it: What horror-movie buff didn’t secretly want the sexiest girl to die a gruesome death?”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Your idea of honour is to trap both of you in a loveless marriage for the rest of your lives? Is honour going to keep you both warm at night?”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Talk away, princess. That’s all you’re good for, anyway.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Which was why Samara was watching a horror flick and imagining the bride’s face on every character that got mutilated and eaten by the creature. The music ramped up,”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Had the hosts donated a fraction of their party budget, the charity would be flush for a decade,”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Not you—my dad. He never picks up, he never calls back. I mean, is it too much to ask that a father speak to his only child once a week? To check if she’s alive?”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Because he’d never asked them. He’d been so disengaged, so bloody blinkered, it had never even occurred to him to ask his own family’s opinion about the woman he was bringing into their house as his wife. Someone they’d have to live with every day.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“That’s strange. Ever since you got engaged to my brother, I feel like I get to see a lot of you.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“For a while, Nonita simply watched Samara pour generous dollops of chilli-garlic sauce over each momo and dig in with gusto. It was as though she was only really seeing Samara for the first time and was both baffled and bothered by what she saw.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“I know how much things cost in the US. You’re not the only one who’s travelled.” Yup, this shopping expedition”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Sharav. Given up everything waiting for you. Always believed that you were the honourable man you said you were. Do you still believe in honour?” Biba breathed a quiet “Manipulative”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Never marry a man whose mother gifts you flimsy jewellery on the pretext of fashion,” Mr. Mehra had advised her. “She’s either a cheapskate or she doesn’t like you.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“The fact that Nonita was in the living room when she got there was a reminder of exactly how inappropriate her moment with Sharav in the kitchen had been.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Oh God. Can you imagine meals with her every day? ‘You shouldn’t eat carbs at night. Are you still in that silly band?”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Delhi is as safe or unsafe as New York, and I’ve been navigating it just fine for over a year. Besides, millions of single women live alone in Indian cities, Daddy. I’m perfectly capable—”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Never,” declared Maya. “You’re the most lovable busybody I know. Be careful, though. Remember when you told that girl her boyfriend was cheating on her during our graduation party?” “She had a right to know.” “She trashed our apartment! We lost the deposit!”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Samara shook her head with a wry smile. She’d expected a halfway house and had instead landed in a minefield full of furtive calls, surly cooks, unpopular fiancées, men of mystery, and one lonely widow. It was going to be an interesting couple of months.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“you’re a bit extreme. I mean, what will you write in your memoir if you never take any risks, do anything spontaneous or silly? Don’t you ever get tired of being so wound up all the time?”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“there was also a certain comfort to be found in tradition. In celebrating the tried and true, the things that entwined the lives of people together and gave meaning to them. These pickles were part of a life he believed in. One with stability, honour, and connection.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Yash Malhotra is a good boy. Much better than some scoundrel with a fancy car and bad attitude.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“You feel like you’re being made to live his life instead of your own. Like a seat-filler.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“eating canapés and conversing while waving diamond-laden hands at their husbands’ drunken antics. They were older than Diya, had already achieved that coveted wife status, and regarded her with superior, slightly pitying attitudes. To them,”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Just like Sonal. All you pretty girls are the same. Think the world owes you something just because you smile at them. Now, help me collect my vegetables.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“What kind of person spends thousands of dollars to have it all lasered off, only to wear fur on top?” Samara couldn’t”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“You’ll love this new gin. It’s got wasabi and truffles in it. Karan got it when he went to Tokyo to have dinner at Kaiseki last week.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“was filled with a little of everything, and overtly glanced over Diya’s non-model-size body. “You should try to avoid carbs at night.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“and used the dough to make wheat tortillas, which Biba labelled “flat rotis no self-respecting Punjabi would ever make.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“As though the gorgeous pool and expansive view weren’t enough, the surrounding gardens were littered with giant movie-set-like props:”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“No one likes being put on a pedestal. I mean, it’s fun for a while, sure, but it boxes you in, makes you into a stereotype”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“He should have helped her move on from his father’s death. They were all his responsibility, and he’d been so wrapped up with the business and his own issues that he’d failed to see what was right in front of him.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay