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“It was tragic to be a burn victim—oil, acid, dowry disputes, cruel in-laws, all that—though what was expected next was a humble, pained exit, feminine in its sorrow, in its sense of proportion. In other words, what was expected was invisibility. For the woman to disappear. But Poornima refused, or rather, she never even considered it. She walked down the street, she held her head high, she wore no mangalsutra, she had no male escort, she was iron in her purpose, imperial in her poise.”
― Girls Burn Brighter
― Girls Burn Brighter
“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
― My Side of the Mountain
― My Side of the Mountain
“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
―
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
―
“Asking “why” only makes us feel hopeless. Asking “how” points the way forward, and shows us what we must do.”
― A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
― A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador
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