Gods And Ends Quotes

“To do as her parents wished, she would have to throttle her own plans and prepare for quiet desperation with her people. To stay was to choose a slow death, with no surprises under an unchanging sky.”
― Lindsay Pereira, Gods and Ends

“No one cares about the Catholics, baba, because it’s our fault only. Nothing big we want to do, only work in Gulf, collect money, buy house and drink. We don’t help one another also, no one lifts one finger to help his brother, sister also, how we will become better, you tell me?”
― Lindsay Pereira, Gods and Ends

“A name like Ramesh was taboo, and Kumar meant he could be from anywhere, not that they would stop to find out more. They would probably ask her to quit college and come home immediately, not because they didn’t want her to graduate, but because they feared the idea of losing their only daughter to a non-Catholic, a fate worse than death that would condemn their grandchildren to a life away from the benign gaze of the Lord Jesus, denying them a seat at His table.”
― Lindsay Pereira, Gods and Ends

“She moved to Pune after her Class 12 exams for a bachelor’s degree in social studies. It was a city far enough for her to not worry about surprise visits from her parents, and close enough for them to threaten to drop by every other month, to make sure she wasn’t dating someone they didn’t approve of.”
― Lindsay Pereira, Gods and Ends

“In Obrigado, children grew up and left, adults stayed back and withered. Angelina continued to sing and shout, praising the Lord, pretending to speak in tongues. She did it effortlessly because it helped her forget a number of things—that her marriage was a sham, that she had been unable to hold on to her husband or bear him children, that her mother and brother had written her out of their lives, and that the only thing she could look forward to was Gilbert’s death, which would end this farce and let her go to her own grave with honesty.”
― Lindsay Pereira, Gods and Ends