Quotes by : Thrity Umrigar

First time since I come to Am'rica, I not with husband or Rekha or in restaurant or store or car or apartment.....

And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others,....

Everything that he was saying sounded incredible, but Frank knew enough about politics to know that governments....

And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing.....

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun....

All the tears shed in the world, where do they go? she wondered. If one could capture all of them, they....

but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures....

India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted....

This solidarity business I used to talk about ain't just--what do you youngsters call it?--theoretical.....