“Nor was her love for Udayan recognizable or intact. Anger was always mounted to it, zigzagging through her like some helplessly mating pair of insects. Anger at him for dying when he might have lived. For bringing her happiness, and then taking it away. For trusting her, only to betray her. For believing in sacrifice, only to be so selfish in the end.”
― The Lowland
― The Lowland
“Over the years I would learn that sharing money with love and in solidarity is a delicate process, far more difficult than hoarding it. But until we live in a more equal world, sharing (responsibly) is the best you can do.”
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
“It was the English word she used. It was in English that the past was unilateral; in Bengali, the word for yesterday, kal, was also the word for tomorrow. In Bengali one needed an adjective, or relied on the tense of a verb, to distinguish what had already happened from what would be.”
― The Lowland
― The Lowland
“Friendship is the raft I sail on. Friendship is the pennant I fly.”
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
“In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.”
― The Lowland
― The Lowland
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