Books Quote by Uma Krishnaswami

“A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.”

— Roman Payne

“I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future.”

— Roman Payne

“What kind of old friend are we talking about here? The kind that braids your hair or the kind that pulls your hair when…

— Jessica Ingro

“long braids, used Ivory soap, and liked to stencil her walls with”

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

“I'll braid you one.”

— Farley Mowat

“Which was strange, like watching a tangle of loose threads unravel and plait themselves into a single braided cord, stretching ahead into the future.”

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“her dangling braids the color of rain.”

— Lucille Clifton

“Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“There had hung the sense of buffering, insulation, she had noticed the absence of an intensity, as if watching a movie, just perceptibly out…

— Thomas Pynchon

“The braid must never walk before the moustache." Bedouin proverb:”

— Anonymous Bedouin

“The woman in the film drinks in a bar. She's in hair curlers, a chiffon headscarf tied over them like a tarp over a…

— Rachel Kushner

“ Aleksei with his impossible curls so very like her own, yet less seemly perhaps. Such hair is somewhat fairy-tale in a man. Poetic. ”

— Emma Richler