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Hope, that palliative of every human suffering: in desperation, we cling to the flimsiest of straws.
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Cyrus Mistry (Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer)
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The Sodawallas had allowed Cyrus to marry her not because they recognized his love—but because of her family’s money.
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Sujata Massey (The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1))
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But she and Cyrus had had a love for the ages. They had connected so beautifully, with both understanding and passion. But now what did she have to show for the marriage? A husband who thought she was shrewish. The gonorrhea infection
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Sujata Massey (The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1))
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You bastard! You have brought up the sorrow my family has tried so hard to put behind us!” Cyrus shouted angrily, ignoring the constables hastening toward him.
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Sujata Massey (The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1))
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Frantically, she reminded herself how many men in Bombay might have fair skin and curly black hair: thousands of Armenians, Anglo-Indians, and Jews. And Cyrus didn’t use a cane.
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Sujata Massey (The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1))
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Though death is its precise reason for existence, in this garden, life—overwhelmingly—is the victor.
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Cyrus Mistry (Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer)
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As an old man, I do feel remorse for my childish extravagances. But another part of me could never regard itself, or life, with such joyless earnestness.
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Cyrus Mistry (Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer)
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Perhaps life is like that: slippery, elusive, impossible to get a hold on. The difference between this moment and the next is only one of awareness. . . Yet we drift from morn till night, from day through week through months and years distracted, inattentive, and completely unprepared for the ambush—the moment of our inevitable extinction.
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Cyrus Mistry (Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer)