The Inheritance Quotes

“The trouble with keeping secrets is that you constantly worry about them being revealed.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“To use your own child as a human shield and make their life about serving you … The cruelty is staggering.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“Perhaps the joy, and the curse, of family is being able to see multiple versions of the same person in any given moment, the past, the present and the what-if: the version that might have existed if history had played out differently.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“Perhaps the joy, and the curse , of family is being able to see multiple versions of the same person in any given moment, the past, the present and the what-if: the version that might have existed if history had played out differently.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“You know what, Myra? If you keep pushing people away, you don’t get to act surprised when they actually leave.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“People assume it’s the bad memories that
terrorize me, but if I’m honest, it’s the good ones that are far more brutal.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“If only all of our past tragedies could insulate us from the inconveniences of our present.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“To threaten her? Mama was right. You can take a girl out of the gutter and put her in a castle, but the stench will always be there. You’re so blinded by the money and the lifestyle, you can’t see that we are first and foremost a family. I should”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“Meaningless, like your Instagram posts. How often do you speak to your mother? You didn’t even go to your own father’s funeral.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“She is completely on board with you giving up your own dreams to become her glorified carer?”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“Though I must admit I was a little surprised that you didn’t pick it up in the paperwork. I’d have thought a lawyer and a doctor might have been more, what’s the word, detail-oriented? But I figured you either didn’t catch it or you didn’t care.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“Papa knows exactly how I feel about Owen and he invited him here anyway. He promised me money he doesn’t have. He’s the person I trusted most in the world and he lied to me. Manipulated me.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“spend hours precision-planning hashtags and captions. I’ve built a network of influencer friends to swap tags with. I regularly engineer situations to make product placement seem organic.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“Meeting Owen for the first time? It was a lesson in class. His wealth always seemed invisible until I realised what to look for: the furniture and watches that were inherited instead of bought, the pieces of art that were on loan to the V&A, the access to people and places that a chequebook can never buy.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“But I am his wife, I’m pregnant and he made me a fucking promise. If he doesn’t have the spine to stand up for me, the least he can do is walk me back.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“This picnic is little more than a performance, an announcement to no one watching that the Agarwals are a close-knit, wholesome, happy family.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“Papa’s anger is justifiable, but turning three hundred million pounds down to further a personal vendetta isn’t just foolish, it’s irresponsible.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“Who walks into a married couple’s bedroom without knocking first?”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“I’m still reeling from Papa’s announcement last night, a mixture of shock, betrayal and pure, unadulterated fury coursing through my veins, and I need the clarity that only physical exercise can provide.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“I don’t give a damn about Malhotra. The deal you’ve negotiated is not good enough. PetroVision will be worth ten times that once we expand,’ Papa says, impatience oozing through his smile.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“It wasn’t enough that we had to live with her, eat all our bloody meals with her, apparently now we also had to spend all our holidays with her. Suffocating doesn’t even begin to describe it.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“still remember how people had looked at me when I quit my marketing job to focus on my Instagram account. You’re going to be an influencer, they’d asked, the contempt barely concealed behind the wide smiles and knowing glances”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“If it was your brother, your family, wouldn't you have done the same?”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“Love, money, control: each of us had an agenda. A motive.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“And when push comes to shove, none of us will hesitate to take what we believe is ours.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“Or maybe it’s because I know that no matter how lively our gatherings and how heartfelt our claims about family and loyalty, when it comes down to it, we all have our own agendas.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“I am wearing a gazillion layers yet somehow I feel completely naked.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance

“If there’s anyone in this family who can get away with murder, it’s her.”
― Trisha Sakhlecha, The Inheritance