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Ghachar Ghochar QUOTES

Ghachar Ghochar QUOTES

1 " That single moment's intensity hasn't been matched in my life before or since. A woman I didn't know had chosen to accept me, in body and mind. Perhaps it is this instant that forms the basis of traditional marriage—a complete stranger is suddenly mine. And then, I am hers, too; I must offer her my all. I want her to wield her power over me as an acknowledgment of my love. The rush of those feelings all at once is too much to describe. Language communicates in terms of what is already known; it chokes up when asked to deal with the entirely unprecedented. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

2 " Amma and i went to each house to tell them we were leaving. They all said, 'Don't forget us. Keep visiting.' At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. i had grown up among them - how was it even possible to forget these people? Now I see what they meant. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

3 " Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

4 " When you have no choice, you have no discontent either. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

5 " We had no compunction toward our enemies [the ants] and took to increasingly desperate and violent means of dealing with them. If we noticed they'd laid siege to a snack, we might trap them in a circle drawn with water and take away whatever they were eating, then watch them scurry about in confusion before wiping them off the floor with a wet cloth. I took pleasure in seeing them shrivel into black points when burning coals were rolled over them. When they attacked an unwashed pan or cup they'd soon be mercilessly drowned. I suppose initially each of us did these things only when we were alone, but in time, we began to be openly cruel. We came around to Amma's view of them as demons come to swallow our home and became a family that took pleasure in their destruction. We might have changed houses since, but habits are harder to change. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

6 " Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He’s given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn’t strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

7 " It didn’t seem like they were here to find food. Nor did they have the patience to bite anyone. Left to themselves, they’d quickly haul to particles of mud and built nests here and there in the house. You could try scuttling them with a broom, but they’d get into a mad frenzy and climb up the broom and on to your arm. Before you knew it, they’d be all over you, even under your clothes. For days on end there would be a terrific invasion, and then one day you would wake up to find them gone. There was no telling why they came, where they went. I sometimes saw them racing in lines along the window sills in the front room, where there was nothing to eat. Perhaps they were on a mission of some sort, only passing through our house in self-important columns. But not once did I see the trail of a column, an ant that had no other ants behind it. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

8 " it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us. When there’s only a little, it behaves meekly; when it grows, it becomes brash and has its way with us. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

9 " Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

10 " On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women. "

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11 " Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

12 " The well-being of any household rests on selective acts of blindness and deafness. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

13 " Ours is a joint family. We live in the same house - my wife and I, my parents, my uncle and Malati. Malati is my older sister, back home now after having left her husband. It is natural to wonder, I suppose, why the six of us should want to live together. What can I say - it is one of the strengths of families to pretend that they desire what is unavoidable. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

14 " Words after all are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

15 " Words after all are nothing by themselves. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

16 " what agent of death is as discreet as words? "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

17 " Cakes as good as the coins they cost. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

18 " If we wanted new clothes, we knew exactly how much he could spare and what cuts would have to be made elsewhere. The result was that we simply did not desire what we couldn't afford. When you have no choice, you have no discontent, either. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

19 " the last strands of a relationship can break from a single glance or a moment of silence. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar

20 " It’s true what they say – it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us. When there’s only a little, it behaves meekly; when it grows, it becomes brash and has its way with us. "

― , Ghachar Ghochar