A House for Happy Mothers Quotes

“I had always thought that the relationships we make strangers are the hardest and the relationships we have with family the easiest. For me the opposite had been true. The family I was born into was not really my family anymore, while the family I made for myself out of strangers was mine.”
― Amulya Malladi, A Breath of Fresh Air

“If they were not Indian, Devi was sure they’d be divorced.”
― Amulya Malladi, Serving Crazy with Curry

“It’s like this,” Mayuri had once explained, citing the several thousand pounds and five years in therapy she had spent to find herself. “You keep going to a bookstore and asking for a dozen red roses. They obviously don’t have red roses and you come home disappointed. That’s what’s going on with your mother. You keep expecting roses and keep getting disappointed. I know not to ask for roses at a bookstore. That’s why I have no issues with my amma.” “You make it sound so easy,” Priya said. “I didn’t say it was easy,” Mayuri said. “It took me a long time and a lot of effort. There were a lot of tequila shots, irresponsible one-night stands, and shrinks involved.”
― Amulya Malladi, A House for Happy Mothers

“carry inside”
― Amulya Malladi, Serving Crazy with Curry

“try not to sleep with our sister’s husbands,”
― Amulya Malladi, Serving Crazy with Curry

“Shobha announced, trying to lighten the mood. “And I’ll keep all the books,” Girish said in the same spirit. “Fair enough. But not the records. I take most”
― Amulya Malladi, Serving Crazy with Curry

“the bile rising in her throat. Was it over? That easy?”
― Amulya Malladi, Serving Crazy with Curry

“almost always, refusing to leave. When Devi heard her father”
― Amulya Malladi, Serving Crazy with Curry

“But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face. And Shobha had worn the mask of a strong woman for so long, no one, including her, bothered to look beneath it to see the fragile mess she was. *”
― Amulya Malladi, Serving Crazy with Curry

“Gifted children tend to be very impatient and need constant stimulation, otherwise they become aggressive.”
― Amulya Malladi, A House for Happy Mothers

“She knew women who couldn’t keep their pregnancies and some who could never even get pregnant. They were treated poorly by their husbands, their own families, everyone around them. A woman had to get pregnant, had to give birth—it was part of being a woman, as natural as having breasts and a womb. A woman who never became a mother was incomplete. “Thank”
― Amulya Malladi, A House for Happy Mothers

“Gangamma, like Asha, wondered if she was going against the wishes of God by giving a barren woman a baby. “If she can’t have a child, it’s because God doesn’t want her to have one,” Gangamma said. “Don’t you think we’re doing something wrong here?” “And if God gives us cancer, we still get treated, don’t we? We don’t sit around and think this is God’s will,” Keertana said. “This is the same thing.” Despite”
― Amulya Malladi, A House for Happy Mothers

“There is a song from this old movie called Arth where a man asks a
woman, “You are smiling so much, there must be a deep pain that you're
hiding.” I wonder what your deep pains are and I wonder how I have
failed you.”
― Amulya Malladi, Serving Crazy with Curry

“Kako može biti da samog sebe ne poznaješ?
Vjerujem da tačno znamo ko smo; da znamo svu istinu o sebi, i da je jedino glupo, kada ta istina nije prihvatljiva, pa onda želimo da kopamo dublje u našu savjest, u namjeri da nađemo nešto bolje, da nađemo nešto sa čim možemo živjeti.”
― Amulya Malladi, The Mango Season