The Radiance of a Thousand Suns Quotes

“In Manhattan, brown men were either cab drivers or Wall Street bankers, immigrants or expatriates, the gulf between them as wide as a skyscraper was tall.”
― Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, The Radiance of a Thousand Suns

“History was alive and entangled in the everyday stories of India, and it needed to be coaxed onto the pages of a book. In that sense, history was a woman, substantial, vigorous, complex and
always given the customary short shrift.”
― Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, The Radiance of a Thousand Suns

“I could travel back in time, way back, when at a home with too many mouths to feed, love was a constant accompaniment to each spare meal. ….
With my food, I could recall the person I used to be. Before everything changed.”
― Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, The Radiance of a Thousand Suns

“They had nationalities even: Thai eggplant, Chinese eggplant, Italian eggplant. The United Nations of eggplants terrified me because I knew the oblong purple vegetable as baingan, brinjal in English, and I could cook it in five different ways. Would this exotic brinjal still yield to my hands?”
― Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, The Radiance of a Thousand Suns

“Niki recalled Nooran working on the embroidery as she scribbled or scrawled, both seated atop her bed. Faced with the prospect of IIMC, what would Nooran do? When the world darkened, Nooran turned to the bagh. When it dazzled, she embroidered some more. Whatever it threw at her, she seized it and wrote her own narrative.”
― Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, The Radiance of a Thousand Suns

“Even pragmatic people needed a totem of goodness to buoy them against life’s tyrannies.”
― Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, The Radiance of a Thousand Suns