17 Quotes by Sonal Panse



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    It had been a big mistake, introducing her to Tavi on one of his visits home. She had fallen hard and made up every conceivable excuse to turn up at our place that week. Tavi had taken it in his usual stride; he was accustomed to my friends making idiots of themselves over him and he had developed a fine knack of rebuffing them without hurting their feelings too much. “You deserve a Prince,” he had told her. “So here's a tip – don't waste your time on a common man like me.

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    I need to read that,” said the busker, his grin widening. “Looks like something I might enjoy.”“It’s a romance for women,” I said, curtly.“That makes it not safe for men or something, that’s what you’re telling me? What’s that fellow doing there with her in that case?

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    It was a fairly large house, larger than all our previous dwellings. There were two pinkwashed, picture- windowed, orange gable-roofed storeys, encompassing eight rooms, and an adjoining, presently shuttered garage. A friendly, unsymmetrical house, with pink bougainvillea hanging over the iron-lace decorated, semi-circular front porch and ivy climbing from the walls to the uneven gables.

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    There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned?

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    Why should I ignore them? In my own house? Spiteful snobs! I’ve appalling taste, do I? I’m skeletal, am I? Anyone would look skeletal next to them. They are both starting to look like porkers! As soon as I go down, I’m going to mention it. I’m going to particularly point out Isolde’s thunder thighs. I suppose it’s appalling good taste to display them in such tight jeans. I’m going to ask how she even got into those pants without splitting the seams.

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    Family is everything!” he always said when he went overboard with sentimentality. “If you don’t have family, what do you have?

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