The Prayer Room Quotes

“Like most children, she came into the world assuming everyone was good, and spent the rest of her life discovering otherwise.”
― Shanthi Sekaran, The Prayer Room

“On the day George married Viji, she loved him, or at least he thought she did. He did not love her. When she had the triplets, his love for her hit him like a speeding truck. But she was too distracted by those three new lives to remember that she loved him. And then, saying goodbye to her on Christmas morning, he loved her desperately and suddenly.”
― Shanthi Sekaran, The Prayer Room

“Words were liabilities, capable of skidding out of control and giving things away. Like the fact that she was going to India and wasn’t sure about returning. Like”
― Shanthi Sekaran, The Prayer Room

“They were well on their way to the sad and necessary end of childhood, the period of disenchantment, of falling hopelessly out of love with one’s parents, of looking for bigger, better, and brighter things than family and home and food and love.”
― Shanthi Sekaran, The Prayer Room

“The weather here was like a good woman: warm and constant, never threatening to abandon a man before he abandoned her.”
― Shanthi Sekaran, The Prayer Room

“By summer, the house took a breath and stood taller, like a middle-aged woman who’d discovered how badly she had let herself spread.”
― Shanthi Sekaran, The Prayer Room