Shilpi Somaya Gowda Quotes

#1. Those memories and his feelings for her, had lain dormant but not forgotten.

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#2. He stole a glance at her profile, the soft curve of her nose, the sharp angle of her chin, the glint of yellow gold against her dark earlobe.

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#3. Love the way you know me better than I know myself.

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#4. There were two dials: one set to the time here in Panchanagar, the other to the time in Dallas,

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#5. He can't recognize when his own body needs to go to the toilet, but he notices the first night in fifty years his wife is not sleeping beside him."
Rupa shakes her head.
"I don't quite understand it, but that is a powerful love.

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#6. Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in their community, they might be tainted by it themselves.

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#7. Wedding was quiet and small, home they shared was soulless, their food bland. Sarla and her husband felt like guests in that home rather than family. They wondered what had happened to their son.

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#8. Sometimes, as she has well learned in life, one's actions must precede the emotions one hopes to feel.

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#9. Why not?" Trey shrugged. "I owe you, man.

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#10. a girl you still could not forget?

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#11. Still others, like Kavita, just sit and sit, sometimes for hours. They are the ones, she now understands, who are mourning. Like her, they mourn a loss so wide and sodeep and so all-encompassing that it threatens to wash them away with grief.

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#12. Always so eager to achieve the next milestone on her path, she has neglected to question that path or to look ahead.

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#13. I love your smile, that smile. Don't cover it up. It's the best part of you. The

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#14. At some point, the family you create is more important than the one you were born into.

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#15. Sometimes she wishes she could return to the naive happiness of their life. But mostly, she aches to go forward, to a place her body doesn't seem willing to take her.

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#16. Kavita's arms are still outstretched, but they hold nothing. After the metal gate clangs shut behind them, Kavita can still hear Usha's piercing wail echoing inside.

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#17. Notice if you are holding your breath after inhaling, and if so, what are you afraid of letting go. Or are you holding it after exhaling, and what are you afraid of letting in.

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#18. Americans are so tightly wound, the way they kill themselves to get ahead. It's no way to live,

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#19. If the mother falls, the whole family falls.

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#20. Not only was it impossible to truly belong in America, but he didn't fit in here anymore either. He was a dweller of two lands, accepted by none.

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#21. Tried to be faultless as a parent, but still she worries that in the end, all her love for her daughter will not compensate for the loss she suffered as a baby

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#22. Or does she still come here simply because it's become a habit, like a scar etched onto her body, one that she can't help but think about, scratch at, pick at, all the while hoping it will miraculously heal one day?

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#23. He opened his heart to me. He wasn't afraid to show me his weakness. It was a remarkable thing, in that time, for a man to do that. That's the key thing about a strong marriage. It gives you a safe place to be yourself, entirely, even the weak parts.

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