Never Meant to Stay Quotes

“judgement and a ridiculously high-pitched voice, along with Marilyn Monroe hair and skimpy clothing. Let’s face it: What horror-movie buff didn’t secretly want the sexiest girl to die a gruesome death?”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“No! You can’t do this! I did everything right!” shouted Nonita into her face. “Touched your feet, complimented your garden, made you tea, gave advice to your fat daughter, put up with that rude college brat and that kitchen hag! Ate her disgusting food!” Biba bristled. “Some people eat more than just leaves, shrew.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“are Punjabis. We only eat fresh food in this house. Got it?” Her tone brooked no argument.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Your idea of honour is to trap both of you in a loveless marriage for the rest of your lives? Is honour going to keep you both warm at night?”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Sharav was a Punjabi businessman in Delhi, bound to his roots and family, confident of his place in the world, certain of the future he wanted. Samara was a rootless free spirit who wanted to travel the globe, having adventures. Delhi had been nothing more than a pit stop for her. They didn’t belong together, he argued against his dejected heart.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Sharav. Given up everything waiting for you. Always believed that you were the honourable man you said you were. Do you still believe in honour?” Biba breathed a quiet “Manipulative”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Grooms, fathers, and brothers were given designer watches or fancy cars, while mothers and sisters were given fine jewellery. Honeymoons and higher education were paid for, houses were bought. Sharav detested the practice. Amita, however, wasn’t”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Because he’d never asked them. He’d been so disengaged, so bloody blinkered, it had never even occurred to him to ask his own family’s opinion about the woman he was bringing into their house as his wife. Someone they’d have to live with every day.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Oh God. Can you imagine meals with her every day? ‘You shouldn’t eat carbs at night. Are you still in that silly band?”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Sharav had to concede that it would probably be for the best. Samara had grown up all over the world. She wasn’t built to be tethered to one place. The best thing for both of them would be to let her go.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“You feel like you’re being made to live his life instead of your own. Like a seat-filler.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Decides she doesn’t want to work anymore and asks you for an allowance? Moves into our bedroom after we’re married? Where does it stop?” She pointed”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Fine. Although I am your future wife, Sharav, so you should be taking my side.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“don’t know how you all put up with her every day. All that nonstop meddling, giving instructions to everyone as if she was the head of the family!”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Maybe this was why she put up with Ari. The dating market around Diya consisted either of arranged matches whom she was expected to marry after a month of awkward tea parties . . . . . . or these three.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“city of Delhi was in a landlocked valley surrounded by mountain ranges, which basically trapped pollutants and swirled them around in a soupy smog. Air purifiers, generators, and water-filtration systems were as common among well-off residents as electric toothbrushes. Putting aside her own issues”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“there was also a certain comfort to be found in tradition. In celebrating the tried and true, the things that entwined the lives of people together and gave meaning to them. These pickles were part of a life he believed in. One with stability, honour, and connection.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“He should have helped her move on from his father’s death. They were all his responsibility, and he’d been so wrapped up with the business and his own issues that he’d failed to see what was right in front of him.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“She looked at Samara with a pointed, imperious glance that would have put a fairy-tale stepmother to shame. “Not outsiders.” “I see,” repeated”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“For a while, Nonita simply watched Samara pour generous dollops of chilli-garlic sauce over each momo and dig in with gusto. It was as though she was only really seeing Samara for the first time and was both baffled and bothered by what she saw.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“I know how much things cost in the US. You’re not the only one who’s travelled.” Yup, this shopping expedition”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“The fact that Nonita was in the living room when she got there was a reminder of exactly how inappropriate her moment with Sharav in the kitchen had been.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“You sing the song you were meant to sing tonight. One of the most popular rock songs of all time. A song that’s been your anthem since you were a kid.” “Now? Here? For you and an audience of spiders and lizards?” Samara ignored the sarcasm in”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Yes, I know the prize is a Range Rover. You mentioned it, twice.” Sharav’s tone was acerbic. “You already have a very nice car. You don’t need to create a sex tape for a new one.” Nonita looked”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“if the family business suffered losses in the future and they could no longer afford an affluent lifestyle? Would she leave him?”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Had the hosts donated a fraction of their party budget, the charity would be flush for a decade,”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Now I know how Alice felt when she went down the rabbit hole.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“No one likes being put on a pedestal. I mean, it’s fun for a while, sure, but it boxes you in, makes you into a stereotype”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“you’re a bit extreme. I mean, what will you write in your memoir if you never take any risks, do anything spontaneous or silly? Don’t you ever get tired of being so wound up all the time?”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Which was why Samara was watching a horror flick and imagining the bride’s face on every character that got mutilated and eaten by the creature. The music ramped up,”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay