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“Indecision will be your epitaph.”
― Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

“No. A woman forgives the child, and she might even forgive the father. But she never forgets.”
― Abraham Verghese

“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“But such memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water