Padma Venkatraman Quotes

#1. Will you go out with me for a cup of coffee?" "No." "No?" "I prefer tea, thank you.

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#2. If a dog barks at the sun, it does not dim the sun's brightness. (44)

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#3. You don't have to climb ladders to reach God. He dances within all He creates.

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#4. Jim was cricket practice; Govinda's the real match. Match. Get it?

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#5. My hand slips into his as though it remembers his touch and we've held hands often in a previous life.

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#6. It feels like Shiva destroyed my universes of possibility, like He's dancing on the ashes of my snatched away dreams.

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#7. My skin tingles as I step into the music,
give in to the icy thrill of pleasure
that spreads through me whenever I dance,
the pleasure of leaping into a cool lake on a
sweltering day.

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#8. How does the new leg feel?' I don't point out their question misses a point: even this new leg doesn't feel.

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#9. I want to tell the nurses no scale can measure
the pain of my dreams
dancing
beyond reach.

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#10. I can dance beauty into my body

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#11. The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.

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#12. In my mind's eye, my chess pieces had grown into lines of dark-skinned men marching forward, being beaten by a white army and crumpling one by one into my father's waiting arms, bloodstains blossoming across their shoulders. (32)

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#13. She is a pebble skipping
over the surface of a lake.
As I once was.
Not a deep sinking stone that leaves widening ripples behind
after it's disappeared.
As I hope to be.

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#14. The van lurches forward. My thoughts race back.

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#15. Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don't find her joke all that funny.

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#16. I'm not sure I can empty myself of wishing for those able bodies I don't own.

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#17. Everytime I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted.

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