Bombay Balchão Quotes

“Time heals the broken. Sometimes, the healing is slow. Sometimes, it is slower. You cannot predict how long it will take before one forgets what it all felt like—heartbreak, the pain, the anguish, and that emptiness. Years could roll by, and you’d have done ten million different things to keep yourself from thinking, and yet, the mind would remember that moment when your life fell apart and crushed you whole.”
― Jane Borges, Bombay Balchao

“try telling a lover that love is not good for him. If you get a smile in return for your unsolicited advice, be assured that even though you were heard by the tiniest germ that swam the air at that moment, the pair of ears that the advice was meant for had cut out the disturbing sound frequencies before you had even emitted them.”
― Jane Borges, Bombay Balchao

“Each time you prepare the balchão masala, think of the person you want to feed it to. If it’s someone you dislike, you might end up being too liberal with your spices. If this person is somebody you love, you will be more careful, especially with your peppercorns and chillies. You don’t want to burn the tongue that has been kind to you,’ Lorna had advised in Konkani.”
― Jane Borges, Bombay Balchão

“A final menu was drawn up, with chutney sandwiches, mutton cutlets, pork sausages, chicken fry, homemade sponge cake, boiled chickpeas, fruit punch and potato chips from Ideal Wafers at Khotachi Wadi making it to the busy list.”
― Jane Borges, Bombay Balchão

“She was his first music student. He tried teaching her to play the guitar, but she was so terrible at it that he stopped within a few weeks. By then, her violent strums had damaged all the strings on Joe’s guitar. To make things worse, she had also clawed into his fretboard with her long, sharp nails, leaving several gashes. ‘Your sister is the worst enemy of my music,’ a miffed Joe had told his friend.”
― Jane Borges, Bombay Balchão