A People's History of Heaven
Mathangi Subramanian
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She thought she would miss it. The power, the possibilities. The bending of time. But here, in this chaos of sisters and mothers and brothers, of families lost and found. Here, in this glorious present, she doesn't miss a thing.”
“It’s not that I don’t want to be part of something bigger,” Rukshana says to no one in particular. “It’s that I want to be myself first.”
“You don’t have to light a match to burn a family’s life to the ground.”
“They'll tell you secrets keep you safe. They're wrong. Nothing safe ever needs to be hidden. Nothing hidden is every truly safe.”
“It’s enough to make you believe that all those enormous stone Kalis aren’t enough to hold the fury lying dormant in a single woman’s heart.”
“How can she explain to these children, whom she would never begrudge a blossom or two, that in the game of life there are two teams: rich and poor? That she and these children are on one team, and Padma is on the other.”
“Early on, we girls learn that life owes us nothing, that womanhood is a spectrum of nuisances, heartbreaks and tragedies.”
“Bravery, she thinks, belongs to girls. But freedom belongs to boys.”
“Bit by bit, piece by piece, the warehouses stopped being warehouses and started being mandapams: wedding halls for the not-so-rich, the never-will-be-famous.”
“Because in the game of life, there are two teams: adults and children. Sometimes, the children win.”
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Book Keywords:
family, secrets, change, teams, women, children, present-moment, freedom, gender, prejudice, rich, wisdom, attributes, poor, life, adults, game, identity
