Honor Quotes
"You don’t love something because you’re blind to its faults, right? You love it despite its flaws."
"The most basic rule of broadcast journalism was that you never, ever relinquished the microphone, never handed it over to your subject."
"Being uncomfortable is good, beta. It’s in discomfort that growth happens."
"All these people are chors," he said. "They just fleece people."
"It’s rare," Mohan said. "The city’s mostly overrun by crows. They’ve chased all the other species out."
"I suppose you can’t blame them," she said. "This is their home."
"In that moment, she felt so estranged from the city of her birth that she would have paid a million bucks to be transported back to her silent, monastic apartment in Brooklyn."
"You really couldn’t go home again. Mumbai had spat her out once, and it had just done so again."
"But is this how you Indians treat your children?"
"This city is like some giant social experiment conducted every single day. This place should be a fucking powder keg—but somehow, it’s not."
"You think the unemployment rate would be like if Indians became... independent?"
"No, men like Rupal were not the problem. The problem lay with the culture from which they bubbled up."
"It’s a country that puts a premium on saving face."
"The world was filled with people who were adrift, rudderless, and untethered."
"The innocent always paid for the sins of the guilty."
"I was in such pain—it was like I had no body. Like I was fire itself."
"Because love had softened my heart, Abdul’s kind nature made me kind. I was happy, so I wanted to share my happy with others."
"Every day at work, I watch you, and I see how you take over the job of the old lady sitting next to you when she falls behind on her quota."
"I saw us in that sad house, eating food that Radha and I provided, having to endure Govind’s insults and abuse."
"In all this excitement, I nearly forgot. I am thirsty to talk to you."
"My heart was fluttering. I pulled my dupatta closer to my face."
"I am a Hindustani first. First, I worship my desh. Next, I worship my religion."
"What business is it of his, who you marry? I'm wanting to marry you, not him."
"Everyone knows you Muslims are not children of God. But my religion teaches me to respect our elders."
"But most of the time, he smells like he used to—like the river, like the grass, like the smell of our land after the first rain."
"From the first minute I saw you, my heart was in your hands."
"This is not what I think. It is what my brothers believe."
"Govind went to Rupal for advice. And Rupal called a village council meeting."
"Now, it is simply a field of buried dreams. Sometimes, I play hide-and-seek with Abru in the grass and speak to the ghosts of the two brothers."
"Because a woman can live in one of two houses—fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time."
"I am a woman who has walked on fiery coals and lived."
"I had wanted to tell Smita about how my burnt feet led me to Abdul."
"Life is a beautiful journey. Who knows what will happen tomorrow?"
"I don’t know how we’ll ever find Anjali in this commotion."
"I am praying Smita and Mohan babu will be there."
"I am not sure if I should pray to the Muslim God or the Hindu one."
"If Abdul were alive, he would say there is only one God—and that I must pray to the God called Justice."
"Maybe, when people die, they become a speck in the eye of God?"
"The judicial system wasn’t supposed to be rigged like a casino, with the decks stacked against the plaintiffs."
"What’s the matter with you? You act as if you have never covered a wrong verdict before."
"This is no wedding celebration. This is a funeral procession."
"We will leave her where she was at her happiest."
"I can’t think of doing anything else for a living."
"All the important things in life are supposed to scare you."