The Bridge Home Quotes

“And I guess how you live matters more than how long you live. Every happy moment we had, every bit of love we shared, still glows. We’re together in my heart and always will be.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“But love doesn't stop him from living and moving forward, because that's how life moves" -Arul”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“I don't know how you live without dreams" -Viji”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“Like magic, you could stretch time out when we needed it, so that a moment felt endless. So the taste of half an orange could last and last.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“If I wanted a better future, I needed to change the life we had .Now.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“It amazes me that there are so many different words to pray with, and so many people praying, but there is still so much misery and cruelty in the world" -Viji”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“When, at last, I placed a section in my mouth, I could hear it burst as my teeth met the flesh, squeezing the juice out onto my tongue, tart at first and then sweet. Everything else melted away except for the taste, the smell, the feel of the fruit on my tongue.
I ate the fruit slowly. The way you liked to do things.
Until then, I'd thought it was a sad thing that you were sometimes slower than the rest of us. But that day, I realized that slow can be better than fast. Like magic, you could stretch time out when we needed it, so that a moment felt endless. So the taste of half an orange could last and last" -Viji”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“It amazes me that there are so many different words to pray with, and so many people praying, but there is still so much misery and cruelty in the world.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“You handed over the money. I’d never seen you stand so tall before. That was something. No. That was everything.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“I don't mind if you have no faith in religion, Viji. Just as long as you have faith in the goodness within yourself" -Celina Aunty”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“I paused, thinking of all the wonderful things she'd said - about my imagination and how smart I was - and how she'd encouraged us both. I realized the biggest gift she'd given me wasn't the book - it was something else.

She believed in me and Rukku" -Viji”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“Just once,” Arul said. “Long enough to show me two things, Viji. That he still loves us. But love doesn’t stop him from living and moving forward, because that’s how life moves.” • • •”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“But by the time we stood by your bed, your own body was as stiff as a wooden doll’s and it was too late.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“Boss is better,” Muthu said. “My stepbrother’s the one who sold me.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“I saw more people that one day than I’d seen our whole lives. But nobody noticed us. We were in plain sight. But we were invisible.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“The waste man didn't take everything we had" - Arul

He threaded my free hand through one of his and reach out for you with his other hand.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“The only way I can get through each day is by not thinking of all those tomorrows. All those minutes and days and months and years of sorting through mountains of rubbish. But if it helps you to have a bit of money to hold on to, we'll save some for you to dream on.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“watchmen?” “No, but it was a rich neighborhood, so maybe they’ll pay more for Rukku’s necklaces.” “Or maybe they got rich by being stingier, so they’ll pay less,” Muthu said. • • •”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“more people that one day than I’d seen our whole”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“But love doesn't stop him from living and moving forward, because that's how life moves”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“I still have one, the only one we didn’t sell, and nights when I just can’t get to sleep here, I count the beads on it, like it’s my own kind of rosary.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

“All she’d done was beg. I would never become like her, I promised myself. I’d never beg anyone for anything.”
― Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home