“I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men who do not welcome girl-babies will not treasure me as I grow to woman - though he call me princess just because the Guru told him to.
I have come so far, I have borne so much pain and emptiness!
But men have not yet changed.”
― quote from What the Body Remembers
“Learning is just remembering slowly, like simmer coming to boil.”
― quote from What the Body Remembers
“Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.”
― quote from What the Body Remembers
“Why does Papaji tell Jeevan this story? Roop wonders. Whenever Gujri tells Roop a story, se reminds Roop that stories are not told for th telling, but for the teaching.”
― quote from What the Body Remembers
“She leans over Roop the way Sardarji leaned over Satya the years she cried for children, brushing tears from Roop's heavy lashes with her lips. She strokes her head as a mother would, says. "Slpee little one, we are together now."
And Roop sleeps, overcome by the afternoon heat.
While Satya watches her.
So trusting, so very stupid.”
― quote from What the Body Remembers
“See,” she’s saying. “I told you, Heather. You’re too nice to win. Too weak. Not in good enough shape. Because size twelveis fat. Oh, I know what you’re going to say. It’s the size of the average American woman. But guess what? The average American woman is fat, Heather.''[...]
It takes me a while to realize that the breathing isn’t my own. When I’m finally able to see, I look up, and see Rachel laying at my feet, blood pouring out of an indentation on the side of her head and tingeing the rain puddles all around her pink.And standing before me, a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest heaving, her eyes filled with contempt as she stares down at Rachel’s prone body.Mrs. Allington shakes her head.
“I’m a size twelve,” she says.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Size 12 Is Not Fat
“Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“Successes are secret and thankless, failures are splashy and gain you only blame.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from Memory
“Znati svoje želje, i spoznati tren njihovog ostvarenja, znaci su velike mudrosti.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician: Apprentice
“Sometimes Submission is the Dominant thing to do, love.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from Dom Wars: Round Six
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