“He was my darkness & I was his light.We couldn't exist without each other.”

“He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for Lalitha, amounted to little more than flight from circumstance. He and Patty couldn't live together and couldn't imagine living apart. Each time he thought they'd reached the unbearable breaking point, it turned out that there was still further they could go without breaking.”

“My grandfather said white people can't exist without speaking. He said they're all just imitations of each other, so it's like they have to speak to distinguish themselves.”

“Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.”

“I felt trapped in a world that I couldn't mould to my own desires. Others were in sunlight; I was in darkness.”

“You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss”