“We all begin with a story of ourselves that we believe to be true. But perhaps true personal change, even healing, can only happen when we change that narrative, when we begin to tell ourselves and others a different story.… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
“Four years into her marriage, Sera had woken up one morning to feel something hot and sticky in the back of her throat. For… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
This is love-not what we say to each other but what we not say. Sometime it just one look exchange. Sometime one word. But… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
“He had been in the legal profession long enough to know that human behavior was complicated and unpredictable and that justice always had to… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
“She wanted to explain everything to him—how certain notes of the Moonlight Sonata shredded her heart like wind inside a paper bag; how her… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
I intend to give my eighty-two-year-old dad a copy of God Never Blinks. I will also buy one for a sixteen-year-old friend. This wise,… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
“So perhaps there are no phantom pains after all; perhaps all pain is real; perhaps each long-ago blow lives on into eternity in some… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
“Or perhaps it is that time doesn’t heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
“This solidarity business I used to talk about ain't just--what do you youngsters call it?--theoretical. It means putting your body, your physical self, on… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
“When the God enter into your house, he not enter looking like the God. He enter looking like human being. God enter my life… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
“but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past” — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
“We all begin with a story of ourselves that we believe to be true. But perhaps true personal change, even healing, can only happen… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
“It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share
