6 Quotes by Holly Bodger

Nani’s allegiance is to her angerandangerruns deeper than blood and skin.It’s set in boneand bone, once broken,neverheals the same.

The president is not at all like the powerful icon I imagined her to be. She’s more like I remember Amma: small and delicate with a sari that dances behind her as she walks. Of course, the president is clad in white, the color that shows eternal mourning of a lost child, while Amma never wore white. She wore reds and oranges and deep greens. Colors of celebration, of happiness. Perhaps she wears white now. Now that I am dead to her.

Have to wait my turn.Have to follow the rules.Have to smile like I agree.Have toHave toHave toHave toChoose him.

My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net.

Power of a stallion, and the innocence of a foal...

A man is measurednot by the answers he findsbut the questions he asks.Find an answerand you stand still.Stop asking questionsand you die.