The Golden Son Quotes

“You've got to check your ego at the door, and change your goal from having the right answer to learning everything you can. Understand?”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“I love your smile, that smile. Don’t cover it up. It’s the best part of you.” The”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“a girl you still could not forget?”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“Not only was it impossible to truly belong in America, but he didn't fit in here anymore either. He was a dweller of two lands, accepted by none.”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in their community, they might be tainted by it themselves.”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“Ma believed every step Anil took away from Panchanagar was temporary; she assumed a connection with home he no longer felt. But the problem with planting seeds, as the son of a farmer well knew, was that you couldn't always be sure where or how they would grow.”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“love the way you know me better than I know myself.”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“Americans are so tightly wound, the way they kill themselves to get ahead. It’s no way to live,”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“the emergency”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“those memories and his feelings for her, had lain dormant but not forgotten.”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“He stole a glance at her profile, the soft curve of her nose, the sharp angle of her chin, the glint of yellow gold against her dark earlobe.”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“There were two dials: one set to the time here in Panchanagar, the other to the time in Dallas,”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“Why not?” Trey shrugged. “I owe you, man.”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“so, he”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“momentary lift in mood was dissipating again”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“Americans are so tightly wound, the way they kill themselves to get ahead. It's no way to live, I tell you.”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

“He opened his heart to me. He wasn't afraid to show me his weakness. It was a remarkable thing, in that time, for a man to do that. That's the key thing about a strong marriage. It gives you a safe place to be yourself, entirely, even the weak parts.”
― Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son