Shona Patel > Quotes

“Love survives in a bubble. It diffuses outer reality and reflects only what the heart wants to see.”
― Shona Patel, Teatime for the Firefly

“But I also know this: even though water chooses the path of least resistance, it ultimately defines its own course. Rivers divide and merge, they braid and weave, the form complex wholes. They move apart only to rejoin at a defferent point. The geography of our lives would reconnect us again.”
― Shona Patel, Teatime for the Firefly

“even though water chooses the path of least resistance, it ultimately defines its own course. Rivers divide and merge, they braid and weave, they form complex wholes. They move apart only to rejoin at a different point.”
― Shona Patel, Teatime for the Firefly

“believe sometimes the heavens move in curious ways to solve human dilemmas. A hornet was dispatched to solve our sex problem, but it took an earthquake to mend our squabble.”
― Shona Patel, Teatime for the Firefly

“I think organized religion is a perversion in God's name. It evolves out of fear and greed and makes people inhuman and mindless.

New sensory experiences have a way of overriding imagination, sometimes to its detriment.”
― Shona Patel, Flame Tree Road

“Our leaders are like rushes and reeds,” lamented Dadamoshai. “They will scatter to the winds if they cannot come together to be woven into something useful.” “That’s Rumi, isn’t it? What you just quoted?”
― Shona Patel, Teatime for the Firefly

“Those premonsoon evenings are etched in my mind in the melancholy strokes of an aching heart.”
― Shona Patel, Teatime for the Firefly