Women S Fiction Quotes

You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don’t run around naked.’‘Why?’‘They just don’t.

~ Renita D'silva

She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. ‘Get to the point, don’t allow the subject to digress’ was one of them

~ Renita D'silva

Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

~ Renita D'silva

You don’t live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,’ Reena was indignant. ‘It’s five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut.

~ Renita D'silva

What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?

~ Renita D'silva

I watched the rows and rows of chappals left by devotees outside the Hindu temple and wondered if the homeless boys who sometimes steal our chickens ever steal them, and if they do, are they punished, and if so by whom?

~ Renita D'silva

Every family has secrets, Reena, and they’re there for a reason.

~ Renita D'silva

I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do.

~ Renita D'silva

What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!

~ Renita D'silva

It’s not just about recognizing how ‘precious’ every moment is, or about ‘living for today.’ It’s about finding the sacred center of now, and living there, moment to moment, always.

~ Kathryn E. Livingston

Maybe it’s something to do with the movements: the Cat and then the Cow, the twist to the left and then to the right, the reaching up, and then bending to the ground, the constant training of the body to move one way, and then to move in the opposite way. Hatha: sun, moon opposites, dark and light, yin and yang. This must be key in the way yoga shapes the mind and heart, in the way it helps one to understand that every movement has a counter movement, that every action has an opposing action, that the happy parts of life will be met by the sad, and the sad, in turn will be met by the happy.

~ Kathryn E. Livingston

Know what being a man's pet means. And if you're ever lucky enough to find yourself with the choice, choose the pasture.

~ Stacy Overman Morrison

Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.

~ Belinda G. Buchanan

A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever...

~ Kim Hornsby