Top 6 Sanjena Sathian Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “I had never much cared about ancestry the way my parents spoke of it when we went back to India. There, ancestry meant unpronounceable names and impenetrable orthodoxies. But this gold digger felt viscerally like my forebear. What if this was my land, after all?”

— Sanjena Sathian

2. “Colonization of India was primarily economic,” a professor lectured in college, which made the whole thing sound like the Brits had merely pickpocketed a few wallets. But in the gold digger, see the emasculation of colonization. The only way out is as an export. Through the porthole, his motherland shrinks.”

— Sanjena Sathian

3. “I looked at her and thought it seemed less that things had been lost than that they were being found, over and over again.”

— Sanjena Sathian

4. “I might have been happy. I might not have been myself, but that would have been no real loss, as I did not particularly like being myself.”

— Sanjena Sathian

5. “But I was starting to suspect that there was no way to avoid regret, that all you had to do was find a way to live with it.”

— Sanjena Sathian

6. “Perhaps it ran both ways; perhaps mothers and daughters were doomed to look at each other this way, not as people but as foreclosed selves.”

— Sanjena Sathian

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