A Girl Like That
Tanaz Bhathena
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It is strange, I thought, how we always recognize our best memories in hindsight.”
“You're not weak if you talk to someone about your abuse.”
“You can control people if you know their language. You can shut them up.”
“The trouble with rumors was that they had the tendency to stick. To coat over your logic like tea stains on teeth. What was even more troublesome was that there had been times in the past when they turned out to be accurate.”
“When people say you’re wrong so many times over so many years, when they call you a bad person, you begin to believe them. You begin to hide your face again – to anyone – you will be judged. Sometimes, it gets so bad that you begin to wonder if life is worth living.”
“Love is always the answer when things go wrong.”
“Stories, my father used to say, would always change the course of our lives, the greatest ones being retold over and over again not to simply convey morals or life lessons, but to bring people together. That is the reason a storyteller tells stories, he declared even during his last days, while lying in the hospital bed. So he can connect to another human being!”
“Memories, Pappa had said, can be like splinters, digging into you when you least expect them to, holding tight and sharp the way wood did when it slid under a fingernail.”
“He may not dig through a mountain for you, but he will do other things. Little things like remembering your birthday, bringing you gifts for no reason, making sure you get the bigger half of a sandwich. It’s the little things that turn into big things, anyway. That can change someone absolutely ordinary into someone who you can one day love back.”
“Sometimes life does not go the way we want it to and we can’t really change that. But it doesn’t matter as long as we have someone to love us. Love is more important than anything else in this world.”
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Book Keywords:
memories, human, human-contact, story, abuse, rumors, rumor, bad, hindsight, stories, control, gossip, life, weakness, memory, weak, love, humans, language, gossips
