And I also try to convince myself that they don’t have enough brains to know the difference between a hot bath and a slow death.
“because hell hath no fury like a man who is not the center of attention.”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
“Western psychology is no match for an Indian family. We are too slippery, we change shape, we don’t distinguish truth from lies. Lies are truth and truth are lies—you can’t pin us down.”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
“What was so odd, Babita reflected, was that this striving to escape India felt patriotic: If you were a worthy Indian, you became an American.”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
“dusk in India felt always settled, ancient, a civilization that had come to fullness.”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
“The United States had stolen her sweet son and transformed him into a foreigner trumpeting the American mantra of individuality and self-sufficiency in order to disguise his selfishness.”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
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