Thrity Umrigar Quotes

• Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal

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  Angel, Kissing, Devil

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

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  Brutality, Delight, Life Happens

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• Sentiste una profunda pena, el tipo de melancolía que sientes cuando estás en un lugar hermoso y el sol se está poniendo

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  Beautiful, Sorrow, Sun

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• And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I am like salt, which disappears when you cook with it. I am salt. Without my children, I cease to exist.

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  Mother, Children, Glasses

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• Lo que ella había creído indignación o rabia o una profunda intolerancia ante la injusticia se reducía a esto: estaba irreductiblemente enamorada de este planeta hechizante, de esta vida emocionante, de esta especie desgarradora a la que pertenecía, con su capacidad de destrucción estupefaciente y su magnanimidad sobrecogedora.

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  Heartbreaking, Injustice, Breathtaking

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• And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.

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  Breathing, Feet, Live For Others

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• This is love-not what we say to each other but what we not say. Sometime it just one look exchange. Sometime one word. But underlining everything we say or not say, something else. Something heavy and deep, like when we in bed and looking into each other's eyes. For six years, everything between husband and me was on top, like skin. Now it hidden, like bone and muscle. [] He care for me now. He finally see me. And he like what he see.

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  Husband, Eye, Years

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• All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss.

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  Grief, Loss, Water

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• She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure.

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  War, Evil, Sides

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• So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.

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  Philosophical, Differences, What Matters

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• Mañana. La palabra flota en el aire un instante, como una promesa y una amenaza. Luego se aleja flotando como un barco de papel, arrebatada por el agua que le lame los tobillos.

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  Taken, Air, Water

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• Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.

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  Mentira, Pena, Ojo

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• The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.

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  Wise, War, Love Is

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• Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

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  Heart, Hands, Meat

  Thrity Umrigar (2009). “The Space Between Us: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.

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  Spiritual, Real, Ambition

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• I intend to give my eighty-two-year-old dad a copy of God Never Blinks. I will also buy one for a sixteen-year-old friend. This wise, compassionate, and honest book is a blueprint for living a happy, fulfilling life. Its lessons are timeless – and timely.

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  Wise, Dad, Book

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