“He had been in the legal profession long enough to know that human behavior was complicated and unpredictable and that justice always had to be tempered with mercy.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
