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Monsoon Memories QUOTES

Monsoon Memories QUOTES

1 " She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish orange leaf swirling in the wind and transformed it golden yellow. She liked that it wasn’t a leaf she recognised, that she could name or associate with her past. "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

2 " Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields? "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

3 " But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him. "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

4 " There’s a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain... "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

5 " What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?’‘You are saving your family. "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

6 " Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?’ ‘No, Ma.’ ‘Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church? "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

7 " You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don’t run around naked.’‘Why?’‘They just don’t. "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

8 " Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow. "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

9 " You don’t live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,’ Reena was indignant. ‘It’s five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut. "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

10 " What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt? "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

11 " I watched the rows and rows of chappals left by devotees outside the Hindu temple and wondered if the homeless boys who sometimes steal our chickens ever steal them, and if they do, are they punished, and if so by whom? "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

12 " Every family has secrets, Reena, and they’re there for a reason. "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

13 " I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do. "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

14 " You put cow dung on my face?’ ‘Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear? "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

15 " What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs! "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

16 " What use is status if you have no one to share it with, Dad? "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

17 " She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. ‘Get to the point; don’t allow the subject to digress’ was one of them "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories