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"Blue Umbrella" Quotes
A young girl named Binya trades her precious leopard-claw pendant for a beautiful blue umbrella, sparking envy and eventual understanding in her small Himalayan village.
juvenile fiction | Published in 2023
Quotes
The umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.
Binya loved the umbrella as she had never loved anything before.
There is no harm in wanting, but there is harm in taking.
It was difficult to be angry with Binya for long.
Ram Bharosa was proud of his shop, and prouder still of his honesty.
She had seen the umbrella, and she wanted it.
The blue umbrella was like a little bit of sky fallen on the earth.
Sometimes, the best way to keep something is to give it away.
People in the village had begun to talk. Was it right for a poor girl to own such a thing?
Binya did not mind the rain anymore; she had her blue umbrella.