Prerna Lal > Prerna's Quotes

“...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just as real as law and can be just as dangerous.”
― Toni Morrison, Home

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
― Toni Morrison

“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”
― Shashi Tharoor

“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, Everybody's Son: A Novel

“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 is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your head, the jutting of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us

“She’s got a stick so far up her ass she probably spends most of her waking hours looking forward to her next enema.”
― Tara Tai, Single Player

“I’m not sure what pisses me off more: her softball language or the notion that hell isn’t other people.”
― Tara Tai, Single Player

“It’s not even ten yet, but business types will never learn basic human decency around leaving people alone before the sun is directly overhead.”
― Tara Tai, Single Player