Onion Tears Quotes

“When she was nine, she had cut an onion for the first time. She had cried so much that she couldn’t continue cooking the meal and her sister, Amina, had teased her that no one would want to marry her if she couldn’t cook. Over the years she had invented different styles to try and cope with the burning. She would try closing her eyes, but almost always ended up cutting a finger. Then she learned to cut onions under running water, but they became too wet to cook with. So she went through the painful experience everyday. After a few years her eyes stopped burning, her nose stopped dripping and the dull ache in her head subsided. Her eyes absorbed the onions’ properties, blended them into her corneas and fused them to her pupils.
Maybe this is why her eyes held a watery gaze.”
― Shubnum Khan, Onion Tears