Children would take more interest in family prayers if the father would take time to search for some passage to suit a specific need.
“Speak softly, sir. The regime has ears on all sides.’ ‘There’s an old saying that the regime is deaf.’ ‘It’s deaf only when we speak about our problems. When we talk about the regime, its ears are quite sharp.”
― Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
― Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
“The unfortunate lesson that I’ve learnt from my experience of living all these years is that people are not that good or straight.”
― Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
― Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
“In this age of urbanisation and virtual connections, it is possible to have hundreds of friends on social media but not a single heartfelt relationship in reality.”
― An Unexpected Gift
― An Unexpected Gift
“He spoke the truth. Rusty always spoke the truth. He defined truth as feeling, and when he said what he felt, he said truth. (Only he didn’t always speak his feelings.) He never lied. You don’t have to lie if you know how to withhold the truth.”
― The Room on the Roof
― The Room on the Roof
“Becoming a parent? Someone said it’s an invisible tidal wave that hits you with such force that you lose your breath and never quite get it back. You spend your whole life gasping, someone else said, because it’s a love so immense that it squeezes the air out of your lungs. Everyone else thinks you look like the same person afterward, a third said, but you don’t understand any of it, because there’s such a clear before and after. A completely new you.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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