Sold Quotes

We hid in the elephant grass to catch sight of Krishna, the boy with sleepy cat eyes, the one I am promised to in marriage. (2.BeforeGitaLeft.3)

As we linger over the last of our luxuries… we don't say what we both know.That the first thing we must do is pay the landlordAnd Gita's uncle, who sold us last season's seed.And the headman's wi...

I pretend I do not hear him joining in the laughter when the men at the tea shop joke about the difference between fathering a son and marrying off a daughter.A son will always be a son, they say....

Inside Gita's family's hut, it is daytime at night. But for me, it feels like nighttime even in the brightest sun without my friend. (2.BeforeGitaLeft.5)

I do not know what they have agreed to. But I do know this: he gives her nearly enough money to buy a water buffalo. (53.Numbers.9)

If he turns to you in the night, you must give yourself to him, in the hopes that you will bear him a son. (11.EverythingINeedtoKnow.6.)

"You must stay in school, no matter what your stepfather says." (1.ATinRoof.6)

Ama and I must each make twenty trips down the mountain to the village spring, waiting our turn to bring water up to the rice paddy.My stepfather dozes in the shade, wearing nothing but a loincloth...

We put out dozens of tiny oil lamps at dusk to welcome the goddess Lakshmi, my namesake, who will circle the earth and bestow wealth and blessings on the humble and the pure. (30.FestivalofLights.3)

But my ama, with her crow-black hair braided with bits of red rag and beads, her cinnamon skin, and her ears hung with the joyful noise of tinkling gold, is, to me, more lovely.And her slender back...