Gita and I used to play pretend games. When we played make-believe, I sometimes had a husband. But it was Krishna, the young goathered with sleepy cat eyes, not an old, turnip-nose man who doles out sweets and slaps with the same hand.
Sayfa 77 - Lakshmi about "Uncle Husband"·Kitabı okudu
"I study the scene in front of the bus the way I studied my letters in school. Gradually I begin to make out a kind of order in all the disorderness, a pattern to it all. It is like a river, where the currents of busses and trucks and people and animals flow into and around each other. If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words"
"I think she hoped her voice would somehow keep him alive, would clot the blood.
But I think she knew deep down in the deepest part of her downness she was kissing him good-bye."