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Kiran Manral QUOTES

Kiran Manral QUOTES

1 " It was a good thing that when it came to married men, she was a girl with a firm moral compass, or else she would have been tempted to make him break his marital promises. "

― Kiran Manral , All Aboard!

2 " Love, now that was dangerous. It plucks your heart out of your chest cavity and throws it into the skies where all you can do is watch it freefall towards the object of your love, and hope he or she would catch it. And very often your heart would land with a sordid, painful thud on the ground, or worse, a ditch, and lie there forlorn, neglected and pitiful until you found it, picked it up, glued the various parts back together and put it back into your chest where it would continue to beat on, stolidly, with only you knowing that there was a beat missing. A beat audible to no discerning ear, but your own, a slight sense of being out of tune with yourself, a heart that beat reluctantly, for the sake of keeping up appearances, in the forlorn hope that some day it would get back in rhythm, that some day it would have something to beat for. And then, over the years of missing a beat, you would grown irretrievably out of beat with yourself, and end up discordant. "

― Kiran Manral , The Face At the Window

3 " A dark cloud of gloom settled itself on her head and began raining on her day. Her mood went from animated to morose faster than it would get a F1 car to accelerate to full throttle. "

― Kiran Manral , All Aboard!

4 " The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would fight tigers barehanded, climb down cliffs, throw myself in the path of a speeding car, and even do calculus again if I needed to, for this child. "

― Kiran Manral , Karmic Kids: The Story of Parenting Nobody Told You

5 " Memories are fragile, you try to grab them and they skitter away in various directions. Trying to gather them together to write them out is difficult, they resist, get clouded and escape as wisps of smoke. Nothing seems as crystal clear as it once was, a milky film of opacity envelopes everything. Odd details stand out in one’s mind, not a continuum. A fragrance, an odour, the smell of toast burning perhaps or whiff of jasmine, a shade of pink, a flower pressed between the pages of a book, brings on a sharp burst of memories that drown you with their immediacy. "

― Kiran Manral , The Face At the Window

6 " ...with the nonchalance that came from the belief of youth that nothing could go wrong, and whatever could already had. "

― Kiran Manral , Missing, Presumed Dead

7 " And it showed on her, the uncertainty with which she reached out to touch him, the uncertainty of someone who doesn’t know how a simple reaching out will be received. "

― Kiran Manral , Missing, Presumed Dead

8 " We could love, I realized, without the promise of exclusivity that one had been raised on. And there was no shame or guilt in that, it was just the way the human heart was, four-chambered, with an infinite capacity to contain others, more than it could contain itself. "

― Kiran Manral , More Things in Heaven and Earth

9 " In the distance, the Himalayan range flared into fluorescence, as its snowy peaks reflected the moonlight back at the velvet sky, split into half by the shimmering strip of the Milky Way. "

― Kiran Manral , Missing, Presumed Dead

10 " ...realising that all the time he had been hunting for Aisha in her, and found nothing but the warmth of another body and the chill of a soul he couldn’t touch. "

― Kiran Manral , Missing, Presumed Dead

11 " When you finally gather the courage to release what you’ve been hanging on to for a while, you realise it is not just a release, but also a relief. It frees you to find something else to hold on to, something else that was also waiting to be held. "

― Kiran Manral , More Things in Heaven and Earth

12 " I had come to this city because I wanted
to disappear into its amorphous multitudes of people who didn’t know me. I wanted to be seen only when I chose to be seen.
Cities allowed you that, they took you in like quicksand and spat you out if they found you indigestible. "

― Kiran Manral , More Things in Heaven and Earth

13 " Was I going to be living here permanently now? I didn’t know. What was permanent anyway, except where temporary stopped, and weren’t we all just temporary in our residence on this planet,
in this dimension, anyway? "

― Kiran Manral , More Things in Heaven and Earth

14 " Outside, a brisk wind churned the wind chimes on the porch into a forbidding cacophony of discontent. "

― Kiran Manral , Missing, Presumed Dead

15 " The two half sisters, strangers to each other, sat at the breakfast counter looking out at the unhindered view of the hills. "

― Kiran Manral , Missing, Presumed Dead

16 " She was overwhelmed, not merely by the house. It was the freedom of the moment, where she was no longer playing her roles of a mother, a wife. Now, at this moment, in the middle of nowhere, she was just an ordinary woman. "

― Kiran Manral , Missing, Presumed Dead

17 " Daylight always had that ability to make things less fearful, whether it was cuts and bruises or the monsters in the dark corners of the mind. "

― Kiran Manral , Missing, Presumed Dead

18 " This wasn’t just lust or infatuation, this was intoxication, a craven’s craving I could not explain. But then, what was love but a want of the flesh, or a want of the soul. I wanted this man. I couldn’t not want him. I couldn’t not breathe. I wanted him in a way that was so absolute I couldn’t care if he didn’t want me back the same way. "

― Kiran Manral , More Things in Heaven and Earth

19 " That’s what she was, broken pottery, patched up with gold, the gold shimmering through the places where she had been cracked open, and left bleeding. "

― Kiran Manral , Missing, Presumed Dead

20 " It was the stretch and give of the lycra. And the deep blue, invitingly deep, the deep blue of sleep she longed for, blank and intense, and dissolving everything that would make her toss and turn endlessly through the night. "

― Kiran Manral , Missing, Presumed Dead