Namrata Patel > Quotes

“To fear is to torture yourself.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“It’s also OK to rely on people, ask for help. Friendship can only work if it’s reciprocated.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“I think that loss, pain, grief, don’t have a scale. It’s not about who has more reason or less. You’re suffering. Don’t devalue it or push it aside. It’s yours, and you get to feel however you want.”
― Namrata Patel, The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Namrata Patel, The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

“Meena was amazed that these women continued to learn, to improve in ways they believed made them better. It was never too late to fix yourself.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Life happened in the waiting. Not at the beginning or end, but in the middle, during growth, as long as the soil was fertile and you gave the roots the right amount of water.”
― Namrata Patel, Scent of a Garden

“Once you are over the age of 30 you can no longer blame the past or your parents for the way you are. Fix yourself, it’s within your control.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“The earlier immigrants had to assimilate because there weren’t enough of us to build a community.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Intent and motive say more about a person than their action.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“There is beauty in chaos.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Identity is something most of us examine at some point in our lives. It is universal to feel comfortable or uncomfortable in our bodies, our skins, our commonness, and our otherness.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“joie de vivre”
― Namrata Patel, Scent of a Garden

“hurt begets hurt,”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“The thing about the word regular is that the constant pattern can change”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“she was on the verge of a”
― Namrata Patel, Your Next Life Is Now: A Novel

“Aloneness was a choice, but loneliness felt different. A disconnection from others that felt more like a condition of how she lived her life.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“What must have been a large vehicle let out a series of beeps and backing-up alarms. Her least favorite noise, high pitched and constant. She rubbed her temples.”
― Namrata Patel, The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

“You never had dreams.” “There’s a futility in doing so,” Leela said. “I don’t have disappointments because I live the life I have, not wish for something more or different.”
― Namrata Patel, Scent of a Garden

“Doing nothing never solved a problem.”
― Namrata Patel, Scent of a Garden

“Maybe this is an opportunity to figure out what else you can be. The smell is your origin story; write the sequel.”
― Namrata Patel, Scent of a Garden

“Have you ever been someone’s mistake, Sam? It’s a really shitty thing to hear.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Saving for dreams she’d never attempted to make real was the only way for her to believe in someday.”
― Namrata Patel, The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

“There is no order to life. While time is linear, we do not have to live within its confines. The second one: Expectations of how things must be are an anathema.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“I'm a person in my own right, not someone who exists simply to fulfill a path I never choose.”
― Namrata Patel, Scent of a Garden

“Advice to a young person from an old person: Bravery isn’t in big battles; it is in small acts. Once you are over the age of 30 you can no longer blame the past or your parents for the way you are. Fix yourself, it’s within your control.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Everything was temporary.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“it resonates with all of us who found ourselves untethered and discovered our anchors.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Bravery isn’t in big battles; it is in small acts. Once you are over the age of 30 you can no longer blame the past or your parents for the way you are. Fix yourself, it’s within your control.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“I don’t have disappointments because I live the life I have, not wish for something more or different.”
― Namrata Patel, Scent of a Garden