Uprooted Quotes

“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.”

“Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…”

“I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.”

“Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.”

“Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument. ”

“But none of that matters at all.” His head raised to stare balefully at me, but I said, incoherent yet convinced, “It’s just—a way to go. There isn’t only one way to go.” I waved at his notes. “You’re trying to find a road where there isn’t one. It’s like—it’s gleaning in the woods,” I said abruptly. “You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it’s different every time.”

“It's a lie that matches his desire.”

“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.”

“Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.”