"Nectar In A Sieve" Quotes
A young woman in rural India struggles to find stability and happiness amidst poverty and societal changes.
fiction | Published in 2023
Quotes
We women spill our strength like water. Hardly any of us have any left unspent by the time we’re old.
It was not I any more, not a peculiar, nameless unit, but the blood of my blood and flesh of me.
I am old and in the way; I shall let him learn his own lessons and fall into his pleasantries as I may.
All that men do, with their fine learning and intricate laws, is mind-boggling, but I would place tenderness and loyalty and simple honesty above all.
To hunger is to be civilized.
As hunger pins the spirit down, it becomes less and less a struggle, less and less a virtue.
In the cruel chess game of life, we are but helpless pawns in the hands of Fate.
Her expectations dulled to the same color as life's routine.
We never thought in that time to remark on inflation, on the cost of living; it was enough to live.
One cannot bind the wind; one can only sublimate it.
