“Magda lived a life lit with courage. She was forever willing to see the best in others, to be hopeful, to open her heart.” Courage Book:Mother Land Source: Mother Land
“She would rather be respected than desired and she didn't understand why a woman would make a different choice than that. When she had been younger, she had felt there was something lacking in her, the way she didn't seem to want passion, pleasure, the way her friends sometimes whispered that they did, the way they giggled over vegetable markets, comparing their husbands' genitals, the way they sighed over kissing scenes in movies, complaining that their husbands never touched them that way anymore. Now Swati didn’t have to feel that there was anything wrong with her. A woman her age wasn’t supposed to want such things.” RomancePassionWomenOld AgeOlder WomenAromantic Book:Mother Land Source: Mother Land
“What was it about people that made a stranger someone you could love, and a person you had known for all your life someone you didn’t know at all?” PeopleLoveFriendStrangers Book:Mother Land Source: Mother Land
“What would a person possibly DO outside alone? It was hard enough to be INSIDE alone. Outside would be impossible.” LonelinessLonelyAlone Book:Mother Land Source: Mother Land
“...relieved in that way a good cry, when you really need it, is a kind of medicine.” CryGood Cry Book:Mother Land Source: Mother Land
“When had her son become a whole person, with a whole life she didn't understand, a job that didn't make sense to her? It was like children woke up one day as people. How did that happen?” ChildrenMotherParentingAdult Children Book:Mother Land Source: Mother Land
“Reading would have been a victory, there, something she had committed to despite the obstacles. Something she felt proud of accomplishing. Now, with nothing but time, reading just felt like a way of distracting herself from reality.” Reading Book:Mother Land Source: Mother Land
“My mother is the reason that I love you,' Bhim said simply. 'She is the reason I know what love is.” LoveMotherhoodMothersMothers And Sons Book:America for Beginners Source: America for Beginners
“For Rachel, one of the most profound joys of life was getting what she had asked for, because it was not simply the thing that she wanted but the feeling of being heard” Being Heard Author:Leah Franqui
“An unattended husband is always a bad thing...” MarriageHusband Book:Mother Land Source: Mother Land
“Sometimes, a small, sad part of Rachel wondered of perhaps he was having an affair. Arjun had had an affair, Swati had explained, with someone he had met at his tennis club. Why did people do that? Why did they have to betray each other, to make the problem between two people seem like they were really about someone else entirely? It was the coward's way, she thought, To throw someone else in the middle of your own fire.” MarriageAffairBreak Up Book:Mother Land Source: Mother Land