Ghachar Ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag
Top 10 Best Quotes
“it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us. When there’s only a little, it behaves meekly; when it grows, it becomes brash and has its way with us.”
“When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.”
“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”
“On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.”
“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”
“The well-being of any household rests on selective acts of blindness and deafness.”
“Ours is a joint family. We live in the same house - my wife and I, my parents, my uncle and Malati. Malati is my older sister, back home now after having left her husband. It is natural to wonder, I suppose, why the six of us should want to live together. What can I say - it is one of the strengths of families to pretend that they desire what is unavoidable.”
“That single moment's intensity hasn't been matched in my life before or since. A woman I didn't know had chosen to accept me, in body and mind. Perhaps it is this instant that forms the basis of traditional marriage—a complete stranger is suddenly mine. And then, I am hers, too; I must offer her my all. I want her to wield her power over me as an acknowledgment of my love. The rush of those feelings all at once is too much to describe. Language communicates in terms of what is already known; it chokes up when asked to deal with the entirely unprecedented.”
“Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.”
“Words after all are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”
Except where otherwise noted, all rights reserved to the author(s) of this book (mentioned above). The content of this page serves solely as promotional material for the aforementioned book. If you enjoyed these quotes, you can support the author(s) by acquiring the full book from Amazon.
Book Keywords:
middle-class, languages, india, repression, intimacy, poverty, arranged-marriage, family, parents, discontent, children, choice, communication, marriage, silence, asian, falling-in-love
