The Secret Keeper of Jaipur Quotes

“Be humble for you are made of earth Be noble for you are made of stars. —SERBIAN PROVERB”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“If you want the rose, you must put up with the thorn. —HINDU PROVERB”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“There's more power in keeping a secret than in betraying it.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway. —MOTHER TERESA”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“I turn the pages carefully. Our tribal elders may not know how to read, but they revere those who can. "Books contain magic," they say.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“I should have known that Moti-Lal would figure it out. More than once, he’s told me selling gold requires an insight into human nature. He says you must be able to discern the intensity of a customer’s desire by looking into their eyes. That will tell you what to show, what to hold back, and how much the customer is willing to part with.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“Nimmi and I don’t belong. Not truly. To one set of beliefs, one set of traditions. But we can create our own traditions. Observe those we like, abandon those we don’t.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“He looks at his father as if to ask how I could possibly know the queens of Jaipur so well. It’s a small satisfaction, and I feel a deep pleasure as I approach Her Highness.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“We have important destinies. We are the ones who make or break this country. My family has responsibilities to make sure people like you have food to eat, a roof over your head. Now you’ll leave my family alone, or you’ll have bigger things to deal with—more significant than whether Manu Agarwal is about to lose his job. And you won’t go spreading lies about my son.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“I also realize I’m angry at the injustice of it all. Manu’s signature is on everything. He’ll be held responsible for the greatest calamity Jaipur has known in decades. The Singhs will walk away with only a portion of the blame.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“my own ears, I sound like an overinvolved mother. Is that how Nimmi sees me? I reach for my cup and drain my chai. Malik is twenty, a grown man. But in him I still see the eager, enterprising boy he used to be.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“To her, a hill woman accustomed to sleeping in the open air on bedding quilts padded with scraps of old blankets, these two-story Shimla houses, built by the British, must seem obscenely luxurious.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“After Dev died in the gorge, I’d became adamant that my children would never suffer the same fate, migrating back and forth with the tribe through the mountains, toes lost to frostbite, the threat of death always only a few paces away.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“Independence of our country was actually the event of the century, Nikhil.” “Well, I wasn’t alive then, Papaji. But I’m alive”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“I never knew there was a place where you could go look at books, much less borrow them, then return them when you are through looking. Imagine! Something that precious!”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“There’s more power in keeping a secret than in betraying it.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“Be humble for you are made of earth
Be noble for you are made of stars. —SERBIAN PROVERB”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“Există mai multă putere în păstrarea unui secret decât în trădarea lui.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway. —MOTHER TERESA”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

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― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“Indian food is bold, colorful, bursting with aromas and flavors. What better way to enrich a plot and show character development than to infuse a story with one of the boldest, most beloved cuisines on earth?”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“The flavors of cilantro, turmeric, garam masala and cumin are as much a part of my heritage, and my identity, as are the blue-green eyes I inherited from my mother, Sudha.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“born politician. That’s what you are, Mrs. Kumar. If you’d been born into our family, you’d be in Parliament by now, my dear!”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“He bought cheaper materials for the Royal Jewel Cinema and forged the invoices to show higher amounts, didn’t he? Then he used the money he saved to finance a gold route to Jaipur. And he used those cheap bricks to transport the gold.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“What a relief that had been. When I told Malik, he bent down to touch my feet, which made me laugh! Jay is the real hero here, though.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“when it comes to me. “Accha.” Who am I to judge the accountant? I’m a woman who deserted a marriage and slept with another woman’s husband. People find love where they find it.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“Why would a man from one of the wealthiest families in Jaipur want to get into that kind of treacherous business? I’m several steps removed from smugglers, so my involvement is a lot safer. I’m not out there crossing mountains and deserts, hiring goondas to get things done.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“No matter what obstacles you set before an Indian, he’ll find a way to get around it. People have to eat.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“As a boy, I crisscrossed this city delivering the contraceptive sachets that Auntie-Boss sold to him and his friends for their paramours.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

“Parvati found out soon enough, and then the life I’d built in Jaipur, the financial independence I’d gained, fell apart.”
― Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur