Bamboo Flowers Quotes

“This is a secret which would have died with me, a secret between two people who don't exist anymore for each other.”
― Ranjani Ramachandran, Fourteen Urban Folklore

“I don't have a choice sahib. Artho hi kanya parakeeya eva father used to say"
"What does it mean?"
"It means a girl is another man's property and she is held in trust by her parents.”
― Ranjani Ramachandran, Fourteen Urban Folklore

“Sahib, a bamboo doesn’t flower, but usually when it does it dies. So I am metaphorical to this plant. Last night, I flowered. In the morning I died. I am not being guilty or unhappy regarding the occurrence sahib. I am in ecstasy. I never bloomed in my life, I did once and that was my last. What died is the desire to be alive in spite of repetition of events like I used
to, the strength to drink my sorrows and search happiness elsewhere not in you. We are bound by the rules of society, and I am a woman of morals. We both know things between us have changed and being around you would simply make no sense practically.”
― Ranjani Ramachandran, Fourteen Urban Folklore

“I have never tried to symbolize our relationship by planting a bamboo as you might have supposed, naming my child or visiting her back. For me, she is above all typification and our relationship is immortal. And I hope to have freed her today.”
― Ranjani Ramachandran, Fourteen Urban Folklore