Mother Land
Leah Franqui
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What would a person possibly DO outside alone? It was hard enough to be INSIDE alone. Outside would be impossible.”
“When had her son become a whole person, with a whole life she didn't understand, a job that didn't make sense to her? It was like children woke up one day as people. How did that happen?”
“What was the point of any of it? Who was she trying to prove anything to? It was over. She had not fallen, she had jumped, She might as well keep jumping. It would, then, be her choice, in the end, where she landed.”
“What was it about people that made a stranger someone you could love, and a person you had known for all your life someone you didn’t know at all?”
“There is more in the eyes. More longing. Little things mean more. Love comes through poetry, through the falling of a flower, through two people who both love the rain. Not all this kissing kissing kissing.”
“That was part of why she had left, really, because she didn't even KNOW what she might want, only that it would not be found in the life she was living.”
“Sometimes, a small, sad part of Rachel wondered of perhaps he was having an affair. Arjun had had an affair, Swati had explained, with someone he had met at his tennis club. Why did people do that? Why did they have to betray each other, to make the problem between two people seem like they were really about someone else entirely? It was the coward's way, she thought, To throw someone else in the middle of your own fire.”
“So much of life had to be endured, Swati thought. Not the way, of course, people living horrible lives endured so much, but the way that even ordinary people like herself has most of their lives happen TO them.”
“She would rather be respected than desired and she didn't understand why a woman would make a different choice than that. When she had been younger, she had felt there was something lacking in her, the way she didn't seem to want passion, pleasure, the way her friends sometimes whispered that they did, the way they giggled over vegetable markets, comparing their husbands' genitals, the way they sighed over kissing scenes in movies, complaining that their husbands never touched them that way anymore. Now Swati didn’t have to feel that there was anything wrong with her. A woman her age wasn’t supposed to want such things.”
“She was full of contentment, full of the knowledge of what she had to do next, how she had to stop finding escape routes from her life, how she had to stop moving, find a place to BE.”
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