When it comes to three things"- he counted them off- "black marketing, counterfeiting, and corruption, we are the world champions. If they were included in the olympic games, india would win gold, silver and bronze in those three."
Corruption Abbasi said. "Corruption. it's like a demon sitting on my brain and eating it with fork and a knife."
"We need one man to stand up to them."
He looked out of the window at the Bunder: this violent, rotten, garbage-strewn port, crawling with pickpockets and knife-carrying thugs-it seemed the only place where a man was safe from the corruption of Kittur.
A ship was slowly leaving the Bunder, edging to where the blue waters of the sea changed color and turned a deeper hue. It was about to hit a large patch of brilliant sunshine, an oasis of pure light.
It is her own fault if she feels wretched in their presence.
They viewed him as the product of a buccaneering adventure on the part of his father; they associated him(he was sure) with an entire range of corruptions. Mix one part premarital sex and one part caste violation in a block pot and what do you get? This cute little Satan: Shankara.
Fellows like his father belonged to no cast or religion or race; they lived for themselves. They were the only real men in this world.
is it just a fable for old men like him? If you just said to yourself,"Caste is a fiction," would it vanish like smoke; if you said,"I am free," would you realize you had always been free?
He was an overweight man entering the final phase of middle age, he breathed through his mouse, and a thicket of hair poked out of his nose. The centerpiece of his body was a massive potbelly, a hard knot of flesh pregnant with a dozen cardiac arrests.
Once India had been ruled by three foreigners: England, France and Portugal. Now their place was taken by three native-born thugs: Betrayal, Bungling and Backstabbing.
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Friday, June 08, 2012
Words from the River of Smoke
1. Paunchy - a man/woman with a big belly
2. Chivvy - repeatedly tell someone to do something
3. phalanx - a group of people moving in a formation
4. daguerrotypes - first of its kind of photographic method
2. Chivvy - repeatedly tell someone to do something
3. phalanx - a group of people moving in a formation
4. daguerrotypes - first of its kind of photographic method
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Memorable Quotes from The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
“She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.”
“It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.”
“Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart. ”
“As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.”
“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame
“You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.”
“One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.”
“In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.”
“She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon magnetism. Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride.”
“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain”
“The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.”
“Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned.”
“It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.”
“Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart. ”
“As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.”
“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame
“You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.”
“One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.”
“In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.”
“She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon magnetism. Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride.”
“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain”
“The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.”
“Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned.”
Monday, May 16, 2011
Memorable Quotes from the Hungry Tide - 4
Age teaches you to recognize the signs of death. You do not see them suddenly; you become aware of them very slowly over a period of many many years.
Egalitarian - someone who believes that every person is equal and they deserve equal rights and opportunities.
Dalliance - a casual romantic or sexual relationship.
"You're all the same you men. Who can blame the tigers when predators like you pass for human beings?"
"He says when a tiger comes into a human settlement, it's because it wants to die."
Egalitarian - someone who believes that every person is equal and they deserve equal rights and opportunities.
Dalliance - a casual romantic or sexual relationship.
"You're all the same you men. Who can blame the tigers when predators like you pass for human beings?"
"He says when a tiger comes into a human settlement, it's because it wants to die."
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Memorable Quotes from the Hungry Tide - 3
"For if you compared it to the ways in which the dolphin's echoes mirrored the world, speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being."
This quote from the Hungry Tide, increased my curiosity about what was so special about a dolphin's echo. After googling it I found that there is a phenomenon called Dolphin's Echolocation ( the location of an object by its echoes). A Dolphin can locate it prey using her echoes. Pretty neat, hence her echoes are nothing but a bag of tricks.
You can find more information here http://www.inkokomo.com/dolphin/echolocation.html
And from this video below from YouTube, it was evident that Piya in the book for searching for Orcella dolphins in the Sundarbans - where the ganges breakdown into tributaries and join the bay of bengal. And in this video the researchers too are referring to the special breed of dolphins found in the ganges.
This quote from the Hungry Tide, increased my curiosity about what was so special about a dolphin's echo. After googling it I found that there is a phenomenon called Dolphin's Echolocation ( the location of an object by its echoes). A Dolphin can locate it prey using her echoes. Pretty neat, hence her echoes are nothing but a bag of tricks.
You can find more information here http://www.inkokomo.com/dolphin/echolocation.html
And from this video below from YouTube, it was evident that Piya in the book for searching for Orcella dolphins in the Sundarbans - where the ganges breakdown into tributaries and join the bay of bengal. And in this video the researchers too are referring to the special breed of dolphins found in the ganges.
Memorable Quotes from the Hungry Tide - 2
replete = full as in eaten to heart's content.
scuttling - destroying a ship by creating a hole in it to let the water enter
The sight made Piya laugh: so this is where the word 'crabby' came from , a creature so stubborn that it would rather be captured than let go.
abed - in bed - Nirmal talking abt his retirement
beset - trouble or threaten persistently - Nirmal talking abt the thought of retirement would trouble and threaten him persistently .
despondency - a state of low spirit caused by loss of hope or courage.
The true tragedy of a routinely spent life is that its wastefulness does not become apparent till its too late.
Someone who has stayed in the same job for thirty years becomes like mildew on the wall - everybody longs to see it wither in the bright light of a new day.
For if you compared it to the ways in which dolphin's echoes mirrored the world, speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.
scuttling - destroying a ship by creating a hole in it to let the water enter
The sight made Piya laugh: so this is where the word 'crabby' came from , a creature so stubborn that it would rather be captured than let go.
abed - in bed - Nirmal talking abt his retirement
beset - trouble or threaten persistently - Nirmal talking abt the thought of retirement would trouble and threaten him persistently .
despondency - a state of low spirit caused by loss of hope or courage.
The true tragedy of a routinely spent life is that its wastefulness does not become apparent till its too late.
Someone who has stayed in the same job for thirty years becomes like mildew on the wall - everybody longs to see it wither in the bright light of a new day.
For if you compared it to the ways in which dolphin's echoes mirrored the world, speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Memorable Quotes from the Hungry Tide - 1
There is no prettiness here to invite the strangers in : yet to the world at large this archipelago is known as the Sundarbans, which means "the beautiful forest."
To look upon this strange parturition, midwifed by the moon, is to know the name "tide country" is not just right but necessary.
To look upon this strange parturition, midwifed by the moon, is to know the name "tide country" is not just right but necessary.
Words and situations from the Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
restitution - payment of some sort .....used in the book when Nirmal mentions to Kanai that since the Bay of Bengal has given so much to the Sundarbans...they need to take something back .....and hence the Bay is looking for a restitution.
androgyny - showing characteristics of both male and female....used in the book when Kanai mentions a man dressed up funnily at the railway stations.
parturition - the process of giving birth...mentioned when Kanai speaks of the Ganges giving birth to numerous islands ....
demur - raise doubts or fear.....When Piya is scared of the various boat-wallas trying to skin money of her.
obsequious - Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree...initially the guard from the forest department behaved obsequiously later he became extremely officious .
bandolier - A shoulder-belt with loops or pockets for cartridges.
desultory - Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm...when Piya was searching for a boat to hire ...her process was entirely unplanned ....
mime - The theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement.
pantomime - excessive mime
gesticulate - Use gestures, esp. dramatic ones, instead of speaking or to emphasize one's words
androgyny - showing characteristics of both male and female....used in the book when Kanai mentions a man dressed up funnily at the railway stations.
parturition - the process of giving birth...mentioned when Kanai speaks of the Ganges giving birth to numerous islands ....
demur - raise doubts or fear.....When Piya is scared of the various boat-wallas trying to skin money of her.
obsequious - Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree...initially the guard from the forest department behaved obsequiously later he became extremely officious .
bandolier - A shoulder-belt with loops or pockets for cartridges.
desultory - Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm...when Piya was searching for a boat to hire ...her process was entirely unplanned ....
mime - The theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement.
pantomime - excessive mime
gesticulate - Use gestures, esp. dramatic ones, instead of speaking or to emphasize one's words
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Memorable Quotes from The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri -3
Mangoes. So full, so sweet, so scented, the oranges and yellows of sunlight.
For I am the one who decides where our campaign will take us. A rider can only journey where his horse conveys him.
You do not kill, I remind him. You just send them to a less ignoble birth. sweep down your sword, and let them be born away.
As he watched the grime from his body swirl across the tile and vanish into the drain, he tried to think of a day when water would flow just as freely for the residents of Dharavi.
Wasn't medicine, ultimately a matter of faith? Faith that the doctor knew what they were diagnosing, faith that their prescriptions would make you whole, faith that the tablet dissolving in your mouth would cure you, not kill you.
For I am the one who decides where our campaign will take us. A rider can only journey where his horse conveys him.
You do not kill, I remind him. You just send them to a less ignoble birth. sweep down your sword, and let them be born away.
As he watched the grime from his body swirl across the tile and vanish into the drain, he tried to think of a day when water would flow just as freely for the residents of Dharavi.
Wasn't medicine, ultimately a matter of faith? Faith that the doctor knew what they were diagnosing, faith that their prescriptions would make you whole, faith that the tablet dissolving in your mouth would cure you, not kill you.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Memorable Quotes from "The Death of Vishnu" by Manil Suri - 2
The eyes. Surdas's eyes.
The two fountains of sight.
He said, with these eyes have I sinned, and with these eyes shall I cleanse myself.
these eyes shall be my freedom. These eyes shall be my penance. With these eyes shall I attain salvation.
And that one moonlit starry night - when she crushed that first golgappa in her mouth, felt the crisp papdi shards and the soft yielding chickpeas between her teeth, tasted the sweet and fiery chutneys on her tongue, closed he eyes as the gush of tamarind water exploded down her throat.
That he would scrape and scrub away at her Dongriness, until she emerged polished and precious, like a multifaceted jewel, able to hold her own with razor wit and glittering personality.
Why, then, did he not understand the mechanism of faith? What did religion do to people, to provoke such obstinacy, such hysteria - how did it push people to the stage of torturing themselves and killing each other?
Religion existed to control society, to monitor those without the capacity to think things through for themselves, to provide promises and shimmering images in the sky, so that the urges of the masses could be calmed and regulated.
What after all, did the word 'Faith' connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof? It was only natural that Arifa, with her untended intellect, had to lean on this crutch of faith to negotiate the inscrutability of life.
After all wasn't he constantly amazed at the number of very smart people who were believers- hadn't even Einstein professed the existence of God?
He supposed this was the essence of faith. There was no science that governed it, no calculus that propelled it, just the raw strength of his own conviction. Whether he succeeded or not depended on how well he could combat doubt, both his own and in others.
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The two fountains of sight.
He said, with these eyes have I sinned, and with these eyes shall I cleanse myself.
these eyes shall be my freedom. These eyes shall be my penance. With these eyes shall I attain salvation.
And that one moonlit starry night - when she crushed that first golgappa in her mouth, felt the crisp papdi shards and the soft yielding chickpeas between her teeth, tasted the sweet and fiery chutneys on her tongue, closed he eyes as the gush of tamarind water exploded down her throat.
That he would scrape and scrub away at her Dongriness, until she emerged polished and precious, like a multifaceted jewel, able to hold her own with razor wit and glittering personality.
Why, then, did he not understand the mechanism of faith? What did religion do to people, to provoke such obstinacy, such hysteria - how did it push people to the stage of torturing themselves and killing each other?
Religion existed to control society, to monitor those without the capacity to think things through for themselves, to provide promises and shimmering images in the sky, so that the urges of the masses could be calmed and regulated.
What after all, did the word 'Faith' connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof? It was only natural that Arifa, with her untended intellect, had to lean on this crutch of faith to negotiate the inscrutability of life.
After all wasn't he constantly amazed at the number of very smart people who were believers- hadn't even Einstein professed the existence of God?
He supposed this was the essence of faith. There was no science that governed it, no calculus that propelled it, just the raw strength of his own conviction. Whether he succeeded or not depended on how well he could combat doubt, both his own and in others.
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Memorable Quotes from "The Death of Vishnu" by Manil Suri - 1
Mr.Asrani shook his head at this awe-inspiring compounding of in auspiciousness.
He hated venturing out on amavas. He wished someone would invent an umbrella that would ward off the rays of misfortune he could feel raining down upon him such days. His baldness made him feel extra vulnerable.
He realizes he has to escape the noise.The noise that has tormented him for so long. Born at the moment of his own birth, it has swelled insidiously over the years.
"Thought control," he would call it, "something to keep busy the teeming masses."
An image from the Koran kept coming to her - that of Abu Lahab being consumed by flames, his wife bringing the firewood, a rope tied around her neck.
"How does the boy look?" Mr. Asrani asked.
"Look? Is that the only thing that occurs to you? What is she going to do - lick his good looks when they have nothing to eat?"
She would cook to kill tonight, she would scent the gulab jamuns with the perfume of her own youth, sweeten them with the syrup of her own beauty.
That's what Kavita decided. She would run away. Elope, they called it - the English word had such a voluptuous feel. All those movies, all those stories. She would be Laila, she would be Heer, she would be Juliet.
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Memorable Quotes from Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee
The gossip-mill, he thinks, turning day and night, grinding reputations.
Perhaps it's the right of the young to be protected from the sight of their elders in the throes of passion. That is what whores are for, after all: to put up with ecstasies of the old.
It reminds me too much of Mao's China. Recantation, self-criticism, public apology. I'm old-fashioned, I would prefer simply to be put against a wall and shot. Have done with it.
These are puritanical times. Private life is public business. Prurience is respectable, prurience and sentiments.
Sooner murder an infant in it's cradle, than nurse unacted desires.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Memorable Quotes from LOST - Everybody Loves Hugo
“In a World of Conflict and Strife, There is But One Fact We All Can Agree Upon: Everybody Loves Hugo.”
"The island was done with her, I wonder what will happen when it is done with us."
"Jacob says to talk to Locke."
"I dont have to prove anything to you Richard. You either come with me, or keep blowing up."
"Ask Jacob, what the island is? Just ask him."
"The rec room looked pretty gnarly on my way in. What do you think 100K might buy?"
“How do you break the ice with a smoke monster?”
"Hurley you asked me to trust you, and this is me trusting you?"
"Is there anything I could do to help you?" - Dont get yourself killed.
"I figured you will like cheese, cuz everybody likes cheese :)."
"You like me because....you are delusional."
"Why arent you afraid? - I have no reason to be afraid."
"You got weapons, and we got weapons. I dont want anyone get killed."
"The island was done with her, I wonder what will happen when it is done with us."
"Jacob says to talk to Locke."
"I dont have to prove anything to you Richard. You either come with me, or keep blowing up."
"Ask Jacob, what the island is? Just ask him."
"The rec room looked pretty gnarly on my way in. What do you think 100K might buy?"
“How do you break the ice with a smoke monster?”
"Hurley you asked me to trust you, and this is me trusting you?"
"Is there anything I could do to help you?" - Dont get yourself killed.
"I figured you will like cheese, cuz everybody likes cheese :)."
"You like me because....you are delusional."
"Why arent you afraid? - I have no reason to be afraid."
"You got weapons, and we got weapons. I dont want anyone get killed."
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Memorable Quotes from Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee
"Thanks you Mr. Laurie. You have a good presence. I sense that you like animals."
"Do i like animals? I eat them, so i suppose I must like them, some parts of them."
Lethal: the name of a drug? He would not put it beyond the drug companies. Sudden darkness, from the waters of Lethe.
(lethe one of the seven rivers in Greek Mythology, whose water once you drink takes you into oblivion or forgetfulness).
Sapphic love: an excuse to putting on weight.
(Sapphic : Sapphic: of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess from the Isle of Lesbos)
But he is a father, and that is his fate, and as a father grows older he turns more and more - it cannot be helped - towards his daughter. She becomes his second salvation, the bride of his youth reborn. No wonder in fairy stories, queens try to hound their daughters to death.
In adultery, all the tedium of marriage rediscovered.
(Tedium - boredom experienced due something tedious - tediousness: dullness owing to length or slowness)
The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place., despair that is like gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.
Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours the more hungrier it gets.
Psychopomp - someone who guides the newly dead souls into after-life.
Rigor mortis - stiffening of bones and muscles after death.
What nosiness ! Curious how the whiff of scandal excites women.
Or is being shocked another of the duties she takes on - like a nun who lies down to be violated so that the quota of violation in the world will be reduced?
"Do i like animals? I eat them, so i suppose I must like them, some parts of them."
Lethal: the name of a drug? He would not put it beyond the drug companies. Sudden darkness, from the waters of Lethe.
(lethe one of the seven rivers in Greek Mythology, whose water once you drink takes you into oblivion or forgetfulness).
Sapphic love: an excuse to putting on weight.
(Sapphic : Sapphic: of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess from the Isle of Lesbos)
But he is a father, and that is his fate, and as a father grows older he turns more and more - it cannot be helped - towards his daughter. She becomes his second salvation, the bride of his youth reborn. No wonder in fairy stories, queens try to hound their daughters to death.
In adultery, all the tedium of marriage rediscovered.
(Tedium - boredom experienced due something tedious - tediousness: dullness owing to length or slowness)
The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place., despair that is like gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.
Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours the more hungrier it gets.
Psychopomp - someone who guides the newly dead souls into after-life.
Rigor mortis - stiffening of bones and muscles after death.
What nosiness ! Curious how the whiff of scandal excites women.
Or is being shocked another of the duties she takes on - like a nun who lies down to be violated so that the quota of violation in the world will be reduced?
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Memorable Quotes from Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Is he happy? By most measurements, yes, he believes he is.However, he
has not forgotten the last chorus of Oedipus: Call no man happy until
he is dead.
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech
lie in song, and the origins of song lie in the need to fill out with
sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
He has always been a man of the city, at home amid a flux of bodies
where eros stalks and glances flash like arrows.
But in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not
at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like
lightening. Like falling in love.
From fairest creatures we desire increase, he says, that thereby
beauty's rose might never die.
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has not forgotten the last chorus of Oedipus: Call no man happy until
he is dead.
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech
lie in song, and the origins of song lie in the need to fill out with
sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
He has always been a man of the city, at home amid a flux of bodies
where eros stalks and glances flash like arrows.
But in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not
at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like
lightening. Like falling in love.
From fairest creatures we desire increase, he says, that thereby
beauty's rose might never die.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Immigration to America
"He knew what his father thought: that immigration, so often presented as a heroic act, could just as easily be the opposite; that it was cowardice that led many to America; fear marked the journey, not bravery; a cockroachy desire to scuttle to where you never saw poverty, not really, never had to suffer a tug to your conscience; where you never heard the demands of servants, beggars, bankrupt relatives, and where your generosity would never be openly claimed; where by merely looking after your own wife-child-dog-yard you could feel virtuous. Experience the relief of being an unknown transplant to the locals and hide the perspective granted by journey."
Taken from Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
Taken from Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
Memorable Quotes from Vernon God Little By DBC Pierre -1
Saw-teeth of damnation I feel just thinking it, waiting for fiery
hounds to unleash mastications and puke my fucken soul to hell.
hounds to unleash mastications and puke my fucken soul to hell.
What I am learning is the world laughs through it's ass everyday,
then just lies double-time when shit goes down.
A lier is a psycopath- someone who paints gray areas between black and
white.
So I'm here with two spliffs, and two acid pearls in my pocket; nasty
gels, according to Taylor, like your mind would projectile-exit your
nose if you took one.
Anyways, I ain't that decisive in life, not with all this grief on
board, not with my anger evaporated. It fucken slays me.
My face goes Porked Monkey. It's the face for when life around you
travels in fucken dog years, but you stay frozen still.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Memorable Quotes from "Brick Lane" by Monica Ali - 2
Amma hugged her fiercely. She took Nazneen's wide face between her two palms and spoke to her:" if God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men."
She would never, so she said, wear a sari again. She was tired of taking little bird steps.
She longed to be enriched by this hardship, to cast off her childish baggy pants and long shirt and begin to wear this suffering that was as rich and deeply colored as the saris that enfolded Amma's troubled bones.
I am working for bricks.When I am gone to dust, they will be standing.
University is also close down. All students hold protest. They rallying for right to cheat. In my heart I support. Some who afford pay the professor fr tutoring by exam paper. To be fair all must have mean for equal cheating.
People said he was soft in his head, because he was always reading. Books had cracked him and the more cracked he became the more books he read. That's how he earned his name, Makku Pagla, or Lunatic Makku.
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She would never, so she said, wear a sari again. She was tired of taking little bird steps.
She longed to be enriched by this hardship, to cast off her childish baggy pants and long shirt and begin to wear this suffering that was as rich and deeply colored as the saris that enfolded Amma's troubled bones.
I am working for bricks.When I am gone to dust, they will be standing.
University is also close down. All students hold protest. They rallying for right to cheat. In my heart I support. Some who afford pay the professor fr tutoring by exam paper. To be fair all must have mean for equal cheating.
People said he was soft in his head, because he was always reading. Books had cracked him and the more cracked he became the more books he read. That's how he earned his name, Makku Pagla, or Lunatic Makku.
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Memorable Quotes from "Brick Lane" by Monica Ali - 1
Regular prayer, regular housework, regular visits with Razia.She told her mind to be still. she told her heart, Do not beat with fear, do not beat with desire.
All the objects of human reason or inquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, that is, Relations of Ideas, and Matter of Fact.
In this city, a bit of grass was something to be guarded, fenced about, as if there were a sprinkling of emeralds sown in among the blades.
Nazneen tasted some from a spoon and burned her tongue. But it was her heart that was ablaze, with mutiny.
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All the objects of human reason or inquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, that is, Relations of Ideas, and Matter of Fact.
In this city, a bit of grass was something to be guarded, fenced about, as if there were a sprinkling of emeralds sown in among the blades.
Nazneen tasted some from a spoon and burned her tongue. But it was her heart that was ablaze, with mutiny.
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Monday, November 02, 2009
Memorable Quotes from "Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in
the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a
hundred years.
the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a
hundred years.
These days I write a lot. From can't see in the morning to can't see
at night. Learned that from Oscar.
He wrote: so this is what everybody's always talking about! Diablo! If
only I'd known. The beauty! The beauty!
Lola's hair is long now and never straightened; she's heavier and less
guileless, but she is still the ciguapa of my dreams. Always happy to
see me, no bad feelings, entiendes.
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