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Top 10 Mitali Perkins Quotes (2025 Update)

Mitali Perkins Quote: “Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine?”

1. “Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine?”

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Mitali Perkins Quote: “There’s something about putting words on a page in private that makes me feel powerful in public.”

2. “There’s something about putting words on a page in private that makes me feel powerful in public.”

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Mitali Perkins Quote: “Good humor pokes fun at the powerful – not the weak.”

3. “Good humor pokes fun at the powerful – not the weak.”

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Mitali Perkins Quote: “Thanks, Ms. Liberty! Is that a sari you’re wearing? I hope not.”

4. “Thanks, Ms. Liberty! Is that a sari you’re wearing? I hope not.”

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Mitali Perkins Quote: “Ma comes to stand beside me, and our intruder makes a clucking sound of disapproval. “This one worries me, Ranee. She’s very secretive.”

5. “Ma comes to stand beside me, and our intruder makes a clucking sound of disapproval. “This one worries me, Ranee. She’s very secretive.”

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Mitali Perkins Quote: “My skin is soft and smooth and the color reminds me of rain-drenched earth. But it’s as if the darkness of it keeps Ma from noticing my assets: curly hair, a round face that makes babies smile, deep dimples in both cheeks, big eyes that notice details other people miss. I like my face, even if Ma doesn’t. I resemble Baba, and he’s got presence.”

6. “My skin is soft and smooth and the color reminds me of rain-drenched earth. But it’s as if the darkness of it keeps Ma from noticing my assets: curly hair, a round face that makes babies smile, deep dimples in both cheeks, big eyes that notice details other people miss. I like my face, even if Ma doesn’t. I resemble Baba, and he’s got presence.”

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Mitali Perkins Quote: “I began to feel that this city is my home. It came nearer to my heart, not so distant. That’s how it started, but now it’s different. I am enjoying making friends my age in my church-non-Bengali friends who don’t know the customs that keep a widow so lonely.”

7. “I began to feel that this city is my home. It came nearer to my heart, not so distant. That’s how it started, but now it’s different. I am enjoying making friends my age in my church-non-Bengali friends who don’t know the customs that keep a widow so lonely.”

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Mitali Perkins Quote: “Masjid turns on the radio, and Rabindra Sangeet adds the perfect soundtrack to the scene: “Por ke korile nikot bondhu” – you bring the distant near. One of Baba’s favorites.”

8. “Masjid turns on the radio, and Rabindra Sangeet adds the perfect soundtrack to the scene: “Por ke korile nikot bondhu” – you bring the distant near. One of Baba’s favorites.”

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Mitali Perkins Quote: “I’m glad we’re in the same school,” I say, and drop a kiss on her head. In London we were enrolled in different schools because Sunny’s so gifted. Here there’s no separate school for extra-smart students, and she’s coming in as a freshman, as they say, while I’ll be a junior. With her around, I’ll be sure to have one set of admiring eyes at least.”

9. “I’m glad we’re in the same school,” I say, and drop a kiss on her head. In London we were enrolled in different schools because Sunny’s so gifted. Here there’s no separate school for extra-smart students, and she’s coming in as a freshman, as they say, while I’ll be a junior. With her around, I’ll be sure to have one set of admiring eyes at least.”

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Mitali Perkins Quote: “Libraries. How I love them. My source of stories. And solitude. Where the musty smell of books greets me like the perfume in our grandmother’s embrace. My old branch was two blocks from our London flat, and I went almost daily. The librarian and I both got teary when I said goodbye. And this library is almost as close! I’ll get a library card tomorrow and carry back my first installment of books. Maybe I can also find a quiet corner to write in peace.”

10. “Libraries. How I love them. My source of stories. And solitude. Where the musty smell of books greets me like the perfume in our grandmother’s embrace. My old branch was two blocks from our London flat, and I went almost daily. The librarian and I both got teary when I said goodbye. And this library is almost as close! I’ll get a library card tomorrow and carry back my first installment of books. Maybe I can also find a quiet corner to write in peace.”

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Mitali Perkins Quote: “Libraries. How I love them. My source of stories. And solitude.”

11. “Libraries. How I love them. My source of stories. And solitude.”

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Mitali Perkins Quote: “I wish the Ganges could wash the grief from my heart, but it can’t.”

12. “I wish the Ganges could wash the grief from my heart, but it can’t.”

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