Meghna Pant Quotes & Sayings

I have learnt that a good marriage is healing for the soul, something to relish. But a bad marriage is long-suffering, a thing to be endured. The only good thing about marriage is that it's perishable like human life. — Meghna Pant

She gave her a long embrace, like pie baking in the warmth of an oven. — Meghna Pant

In India there's no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man's face and you'll find an old man's mind. — Meghna Pant

Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering. — Meghna Pant

Their marriage hadn't died dramatically. There were no adulterous truants or burst spleens or freakish lightning strikes or splattered brains over the highway. Their marriage had died of neglect and errors and abrasiveness. It died under a long protracted illness for which there was a diagnosis but no remedy. The disease had no name. So how could she explain it to others? — Meghna Pant

Like a Persian carpet the weave of time pushed their lives into a pattern. — Meghna Pant

All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage. — Meghna Pant

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear. — Meghna Pant

I festered with this duality of love and ego, where ego scorns the very love its seeking and then despairs in its absence. — Meghna Pant

Her young soul felt cut up like a fifty-year-old, like a squirrel that appeared content, but carried scars from the vestige of time in its black and gray grooves. — Meghna Pant