Where the Peacocks Sing Quotes

“I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.”
― Alison Singh Gee, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home

“It was during those years that I discovered that loving [my father] was like sticking a blade into my own heart. It got me nowhere, except awake in the middle of the night, recalling the years when my father was the strongest, the smartest, the funniest, and I lay curled in my bed, wondering why I had been cheated out of a father who loved me, and one I could love in return.”
― Alison Singh Gee, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home

“In India, we have a saying: 'Always look down, never look up," he said. "When you are trying to determine where you stand in life, don't look upward at the rich people, the people with everything. Look downward at the people who have nothing, those begging on the street, those living in the slums. There's no end to looking up and feeling badly. And if you try to spit upward it only falls down upon your own face. Only by looking down do you understand your dharma.”
― Alison Singh Gee, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home

“Indeed, I once read an article that explained that the thickness, texture, and width of each paratha is also distinct to each cook, depending on the size of her palms, the shape of her fingers, and the strength with which she kneads her dough. “When a mother is handing you her homemade paratha,” Ajay added, “she is handing you a piece of her soul.” I”
― Alison Singh Gee, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home

“We were forever one earthquake away from losing it all.”
― Alison Singh Gee, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home