Thrity Umrigar

“Why worry, if today be sweet'?”

— Thrity Umrigar

“like a drop of ink in a glass of milk”

— Thrity Umrigar

Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

— Thrity Umrigar

The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.

— Thrity Umrigar

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going…

— Thrity Umrigar

“but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past”

— Thrity Umrigar

Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal

— Thrity Umrigar

“It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was…

— Thrity Umrigar

“When the God enter into your house, he not enter looking like the God. He enter looking like human being. God enter…

— Thrity Umrigar

“We all begin with a story of ourselves that we believe to be true. But perhaps true personal change, even healing, can…

— Thrity Umrigar

“Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality”

— Thrity Umrigar

She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she…

— Thrity Umrigar

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

— Thrity Umrigar

So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In…

— Thrity Umrigar

“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…

— Thrity Umrigar

This is love-not what we say to each other but what we not say. Sometime it just one look exchange. Sometime one…

— Thrity Umrigar

“I think distance also helps me gain an certain critical perspective that's essential for good writing. It makes it possible to be…

— Thrity Umrigar

“So perhaps there are no phantom pains after all; perhaps all pain is real; perhaps each long-ago blow lives on into eternity…

— Thrity Umrigar

And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others,…

— Thrity Umrigar

India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life,…

— Thrity Umrigar

“Four years into her marriage, Sera had woken up one morning to feel something hot and sticky in the back of her…

— Thrity Umrigar

“Or perhaps it is that time doesn’t heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead…

— Thrity Umrigar

Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead…

— Thrity Umrigar

“ Perhaps the body has its own memory system, like the invisible meridian lines those Chinese acupuncturists always talk about. Perhaps the…

— Thrity Umrigar

“She wanted to explain everything to him—how certain notes of the Moonlight Sonata shredded her heart like wind inside a paper bag;…

— Thrity Umrigar

Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a…

— Thrity Umrigar

“Everything that he was saying sounded incredible, but Frank knew enough about politics to know that governments got away with what they…

— Thrity Umrigar

“He had been in the legal profession long enough to know that human behavior was complicated and unpredictable and that justice always…

— Thrity Umrigar

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.…

— Thrity Umrigar

“She is tired of it all—tired of this endless cycle of death and birth, tired of investing any hope in the next…

— Thrity Umrigar

All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the…

— Thrity Umrigar

“how people’s faces turned slightly upward when they stared at the sea, as if they were straining to see a trace of…

— Thrity Umrigar

And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing.…

— Thrity Umrigar

What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in…

— Thrity Umrigar

“The docotr babu had to be an educated man also. Then why had he allowed Feroz seth to talk to him in…

— Thrity Umrigar