The Queen of Jasmine Country Quotes

“The god who loves us and gives us this life and these longings does so not so that we can refuse these gifts, but so that we can experience them, and in this way, give him joy that his creative delectations are not merely meant to be transcended, to be left behind.”
― Sharanya Manivannan, The Queen of Jasmine Country

“There are no homes with rooms large enough for the wingspan of a woman like me, and so no one will ask me to enter his.”
― Sharanya Manivannan, The Queen of Jasmine Country

“There is no man in any grove, in any forest, curtained behind the tents of some travelling circus, beyond the thunder of any waterfall – no man waiting for me. I would give anything for this to be true, for me to be like those girls who lie to their parents to spend afternoons in faraway fields with their hair spread on their lovers’ chests. But no one has ever thought me worthy of too long a glance.”
― Sharanya Manivannan, The Queen of Jasmine Country

“Praying and poetry change the fabric of my days, structure them, sweeten them. But this cannot be a whole life, can it? Why can it not be mine – a life of ordinary joys?”
― Sharanya Manivannan, The Queen of Jasmine Country

“They will find the ones they will love, or like Matatilli will find that there are many ways to love.”
― Sharanya Manivannan, The Queen of Jasmine Country

“Those of us who long for love, we spend the coldest month of winter in worship of the mother goddess, asking her to make us like Nappinai, and bring to us men who will love us as Krishna loved her.”
― Sharanya Manivannan, The Queen of Jasmine Country