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1 " It's easy when you're climbing something. Don't look down, or even too far ahead. Focus on where you are in that moment. "
― Sheba Karim , That Thing We Call a Heart
2 " Imagine life as a journey, and you’re only allowed so many things in your backpack. What are you going to carry with you? Do the things you carry sustain you in some way? "
― Sheba Karim , Mariam Sharma Hits the Road
3 " If any of this ended in an explosion, I hoped it would be one that made us burn brighter, stronger than ever before. "
4 " I have to take a big Frosty dump.” “I love it when you talk sexy. "
5 " Whoever, wherever, you are, may your travels begin and end with the fundamental human right called love. "
6 " If anyone heard us, I bet they understood, because one of life’s sad truths is that not all of us receive love but every single one of us knows pain. "
7 " So little of the world makes sense. It’s only that most people either construct a narrative in which it does or try to ignore it. "
8 " Big Bertie’s sweet and tangy Hawaiian BBQ Sauce,” she said, caressing the bottle, “is guaranteed to get you lei’d "
9 " Sometimes I think I’m attracted to ruins because I find the present so depressing. There’s so much hatred in India now, other places too. Sometimes I wonder if we’re one seismic event away from collapse. But I digress. Shall we enter the main palace? "
― Sheba Karim , The Marvelous Mirza Girls
10 " You were never clueless. I was so busy rebelling against my parents that it took me longer to grow up. You see how I still am with my folks. Your personality, your life, your circumstances . . . you may be of me, but you are not at all me. "
11 " Everything she read online said girls who felt unloved by their fathers went on to have shitty relationships with men as though it was a given. "
12 " It’s not as though his cup brimmeth with options,” Inder said, but Meena was looking past him. "
13 " The pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps story was a nice narrative, her mother said, but the truth was that the course of most people’s lives, all over the world, was determined by the circumstances into which they were born. "
14 " More TV—do you know this show Gilmore Girls? "
15 " They made a Bollywood movie about Mary Kom, the legendary Olympic boxer from Manipur, but instead of casting an actual Northeastern actor to play her, they cast Priyanka Chopra,” he explained. "
16 " Don’t worry,” Tara said. “We’ve never looked to America for moral high ground. "
17 " You see the lives most women have here, how they’re treated by men; even money doesn’t save you from it, and imagine if you have none. You were their scapegoat for something beyond your control "
18 " While in the South, it was hard not to view everything through the lens of history, even the sun. "
19 " That sidewalk!” she said. “It’s built like a game of Tetris, up and down and up and down, and then suddenly it ends, and then it’s up and down again—it’s like they want to make walking as unpleasant and stressful as possible. Though I suppose it’s my fault, for leaving my palanquin and manservants at home. "
20 " She could swear like a Punjabi truck driver and was funny as hell—last time Noreen had hung out with her, she’d told a story about her first time using a squat toilet that had her rolling on the floor. "
