24 Quotes by Padma Venkatraman

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.

I can dance beauty into my body

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

Will you go out with me for a cup of coffee?" "No." "No?" "I prefer tea, thank you.

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.

Everytime I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted.

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.

Chandra told me once about absolute zero, a temperature cold enough to bring the universe to a standstill. My heart feels like it’s at absolute zero.

Nothing else fills me with as much elation as chasing down soaring music, catching and pinning rhythms to the ground with my feet, proud as a hunter rejoicing in his skill. The.