The Boy with the Topknot Quotes

“It is because you have loved me that I know how to love others”
― Sathnam Sanghera, The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

“It's easier to be brave on paper than in person”
― Sathnam Sanghera, The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

“...we are members of the same family, bookends of the same set of siblings...”
― Sathnam Sanghera, The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

“...few things about our family life are simple, and the re-established closeness has come pickled in guilt.”
― Sathnam Sanghera, The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

“...Mum's monologues are like ocean liners, they require time to change direction...”
― Sathnam Sanghera, The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

“Like so many interactions in the Sikh community, the encounter will end in a kind of wrestling match, with one person trying to thrust money on the other, the other refusing to accept, and both people ending up offended and possibly physically bruised by the other's persistence.”
― Sathnam Sanghera, The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

“we have been conditioned into communicating with a certain degree of intimacy and distance”
― Sathnam Sanghera, The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

“He became so educated that he went insane”
― Sathnam Sanghera, The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

“the way in which the wealthy are respected over the educated or the happy is one of the most irritating things”
― Sathnam Sanghera, The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton