Pawan Mishra · 230 pages
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“A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Most of a husband’s life is spent in doing research on his wife.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Ahh, love, why is it so easy to let you in, but so difficult to let you out? Why couldn’t you subsist only two-sided?”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“The only thing God is afraid of is a strong-willed human!”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Psychos are in uniform circulation in society.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“One of the biggest disadvantages of being grown up is seeing the time rush by faster.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“The obvious matters are more imperceptible today.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“The hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“I may just be on the outskirts of being okay.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“With the wolves around, your humbleness is your worst adversary.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“When the world around is ready to back one unconditionally, one can become as unreasonable, unfair, and coldly sadistic as one likes.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“You can make any promises as long as you are not going to be there to fulfill them.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Not receiving a request through the entitled route is no excuse for not serving it.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Anyone can lecture from the butt, only very few can act.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“They are a family of cows—so humble and honest.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Pawan Mishra
Born place: in Aligarh, India
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“Melinda Pratt rides city bus number twelve to her cello lesson, wearing her mother's jean jacket and only one sock. Hallo, world, says Minna. Minna often addresses the world, sometimes silently, sometimes out loud. Bus number twelve is her favorite place for watching, inside and out. The bus passes cars and bicycles and people walking dogs. It passes store windows, and every so often Minna sees her face reflection, two dark eyes in a face as pale as a winter dawn. There are fourteen people on the bus today. Minna stands up to count them. She likes to count people, telephone poles, hats, umbrellas, and, lately, earrings. One girl, sitting directly in front of Minna, has seven earrings, five in one ear. She has wisps of dyed green hair that lie like forsythia buds against her neck.
There are, Minna knows, a king, a past president of the United States, and a beauty queen on the bus. Minna can tell by looking. The king yawns and scratches his ear with his little finger. Scratches, not picks. The beauty queen sleeps, her mouth open, her hair the color of tomatoes not yet ripe. The past preside of the United States reads Teen Love and Body Builder's Annual.
Next to Minna, leaning against the seat, is her cello in its zippered canvas case. Next to her cello is her younger brother, McGrew, who is humming. McGrew always hums. Sometimes he hums sentences, though most often it comes out like singing. McGrew's teachers do not enjoy McGrew answering questions in hums or song. Neither does the school principal, Mr. Ripley. McGrew spends lots of time sitting on the bench outside Mr. Ripley's office, humming.
Today McGrew is humming the newspaper. First the headlines, then the sports section, then the comics. McGrew only laughs at the headlines.
Minna smiles at her brother. He is small and stocky and compact like a suitcase. Minna loves him. McGrew always tells the truth, even when he shouldn't. He is kind. And he lends Minna money from the coffee jar he keeps beneath his mattress.
Minna looks out the bus window and thinks about her life. Her one life. She likes artichokes and blue fingernail polish and Mozart played too fast. She loves baseball, and the month of March because no one else much likes March, and every shade of brown she has ever seen. But this is only one life. Someday, she knows, she will have another life. A better one. McGrew knows this, too. McGrew is ten years old. He knows nearly everything. He knows, for instance, that his older sister, Minna Pratt, age eleven, is sitting patiently next to her cello waiting to be a woman.”
― Patricia MacLachlan, quote from The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt
“The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.”
― Claire Cook, quote from Must Love Dogs
“There's a certain language, a dying language, and I can't remember who speaks it or where in the world they are, but in that language the future is referred to as being behind us. It must be behind us, since we can see the past. We walk backwards, blind, into the future, only knowing where we've already been.”
― Andra Brynn, quote from Where I End and You Begin
“An ache stayed inside her. And a faint reverberating hum of something close to joy lived on the outer edges of her memory, some kind of longing that had been answered once and was simply not answered anymore.”
― Elizabeth Strout, quote from Amy and Isabelle
“intense feeling is the mother of eloquence.”
― H. Rider Haggard, quote from Dawn
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