Padma Venkatraman said this quote

Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.

~ Padma Venkatraman

You don't have to climb ladders to reach God. He dances within all He creates.

~ Padma Venkatraman

The library was my only blessing. Every time I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted. All day, I looked forward to the happy hours I spent in that beautiful room. My guilt over appa's fate was too heavy to carry up there, and I learned to leave it below, somewhere on the ground floor. I left the house far behind as I walked on the path paved by the books, and every evening, baby Mangalam slept soundly on the bed I made for her on the window seat.

~ Padma Venkatraman

The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.

~ Padma Venkatraman