Quotes About Udayan

#1. He was proud to have come alone to America. To learn it, as he once must have learned to stand and walk and speak. He'd wanted so much to leave Calcutta, not only for the sake of his education but also - he could admit this to himself now - to take a step that Udayan never would.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#2. Subhash was angry with himself for going along with it. For still needing to prove he could. He was sick of the fear that always rose up in him: that he would cease to exist, and that he and Udayan would cease to be brothers, were Subhash to resist him.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. Again, as it was after Udayan's death, there was an acute awareness of time, of the future looming, accelerating. The baby's lifetime, so scant, already outdistancing and outpacing her own. This was the logic of parenthood.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#4. Lothaire, I've met dirt younger than we
are." -Nix

Kresley Cole

#5. Look at me! I'm sweet and lovable!

Donald Rumsfeld

#6. I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

Leonard Baskin

#7. It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.

Sara Sheridan

#8. Vinny rarely leaves the house so when she does it's an occasion of some importance to her. She spends a lot of time looking forward to a glimpse of the outside world and then, when she returns, even more time complaining about it.

Kate Atkinson

#9. All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

Charles M. Schulz

#10. Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

Edmund Husserl

#11. I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#12. Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why. - Sidney Hillman

Zig Ziglar

#13. Reflection is a dangerous pastime. It can lead you to rewrite your past, alter how you see your present, and tempt you down paths you never imagined you would explore.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#14. Morality depends on culture. Culture depends on climate.

Tom Robbins

#15. I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

J.K. Rowling

#16. Solitude was her soul's hermitage.

Jacqueline Winspear

#17. He adjusted his body in relation to hers. His head angled down, his hand forming a canopy between them to shield her face from the sun. It was a useless gesture. only silence. The sunlight on her hair

Jhumpa Lahiri

#18. To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

Greg Bear