What a Desi Girl Wants Quotes

“I've been wearing this outfit all day and so far have only elicited a raised eyebrow from Dadi and a genuine offer from Bilquis to mend the holes in my jeans. And I'm pretty sure I heard one of the maids murmur that they thought Americans were rich.”
― Sabina Khan, What a Desi Girl Wants

“Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together,
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end, you emerge.”
― Sabina Khan, What a Desi Girl Wants

“I promise I'll be the pani to your puri.”
― Sabina Khan, What a Desi Girl Wants

“She listens without interrupting and when I'm finished, I put my head on her shoulder and it feels right and there's an electricity between us as we sit in the warm glow of the setting sun. I look up at her and see something in her eyes that I can't define even as her face comes closer to mine, until our lips touch in a mix of tenderness and uncertainty. Her hand brushes back wisps of hair from my forehead and I pull her closer, adjusting my body so that we fit perfectly, like two pieces of a puzzle.”
― Sabina Khan, What a Desi Girl Wants

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times ...
In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life, in age after age, forever.

---Unending love by Rabindranath Tagore”
― Sabina Khan, What a Desi Girl Wants

“The words feel strange on my tongue, at once foreign and familiar, like a long-lost friend I didn't realize I'd missed intensely.”
― Sabina Khan, What a Desi Girl Wants