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Top 15 Shobha Rao Quotes (2025 Update)

Shobha Rao Quote: “There is no way to explain a thing that is perfect.”

1. “There is no way to explain a thing that is perfect.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “What fools we all are. We girls. Afraid of the wrong things, at the wrong times. Afraid of a burned face, when outside, outside waiting for you are fires you cannot imagine. Men, holding matches up to your gasoline eyes.”

2. “What fools we all are. We girls. Afraid of the wrong things, at the wrong times. Afraid of a burned face, when outside, outside waiting for you are fires you cannot imagine. Men, holding matches up to your gasoline eyes.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid.”

3. “Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid. Don’t be stupid.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “What is love, Poori?” Savitha said. “What is love if not a hunger?”

4. “What is love, Poori?” Savitha said. “What is love if not a hunger?”

Shobha Rao Quote: “Fear was no good, but neither was the monotony of fear.”

5. “Fear was no good, but neither was the monotony of fear.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps. – Michael Ondaatje.”

6. “All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps. – Michael Ondaatje.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “She then studied his eyes, trying to see into them, or at least see something in them, but they were empty. Barren. As if he were looking into an abyss. A strange land. “It’s a photo,” Savitha scolded. “What do you expect to see? His heart?” Yes, Poornima wanted to reply. I want to see his heart.”

7. “She then studied his eyes, trying to see into them, or at least see something in them, but they were empty. Barren. As if he were looking into an abyss. A strange land. “It’s a photo,” Savitha scolded. “What do you expect to see? His heart?” Yes, Poornima wanted to reply. I want to see his heart.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “How had it survived all these previous months? How had it held on? No matter, it was greater than her body, it was greater than all else. She laughed, for perhaps the first time since the night in the weaving hut, to see it there. To know it was hers.”

8. “How had it survived all these previous months? How had it held on? No matter, it was greater than her body, it was greater than all else. She laughed, for perhaps the first time since the night in the weaving hut, to see it there. To know it was hers.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “It was tragic to be a burn victim – oil, acid, dowry disputes, cruel in-laws, all that – though what was expected next was a humble, pained exit, feminine in its sorrow, in its sense of proportion. In other words, what was expected was invisibility. For the woman to disappear. But Poornima refused, or rather, she never even considered it. She walked down the street, she held her head high, she wore no mangalsutra, she had no male escort, she was iron in her purpose, imperial in her poise.”

9. “It was tragic to be a burn victim – oil, acid, dowry disputes, cruel in-laws, all that – though what was expected next was a humble, pained exit, feminine in its sorrow, in its sense of proportion. In other words, what was expected was invisibility. For the woman to disappear. But Poornima refused, or rather, she never even considered it. She walked down the street, she held her head high, she wore no mangalsutra, she had no male escort, she was iron in her purpose, imperial in her poise.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “It was stillness, she learned, that at the time was the greatest movement.”

10. “It was stillness, she learned, that at the time was the greatest movement.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “What is love if not a hunger?”

11. “What is love if not a hunger?”

Shobha Rao Quote: “Here’s what matters. Understand this, Poornima: that it’s better to be swallowed whole than in pieces. Only then can you win. No elephant can be too big. Only then no elephant can do you harm.”

12. “Here’s what matters. Understand this, Poornima: that it’s better to be swallowed whole than in pieces. Only then can you win. No elephant can be too big. Only then no elephant can do you harm.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “That’s the way it is: If two people want to be together, they’ll find a way. They’ll forge a way.”

13. “That’s the way it is: If two people want to be together, they’ll find a way. They’ll forge a way.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “That’s all she could recall her mother ever doing: something for someone else. Even Poornima’s most tender memories – of being fed by her mother’s hand on the bus trip to see her grandparents, or the weight of it against her hair while she’d been combing it – had all of them to do with her mother doing something for her child, never for herself. Is that how she’d meant to spend her life? Is that how lives were meant to be spent?”

14. “That’s all she could recall her mother ever doing: something for someone else. Even Poornima’s most tender memories – of being fed by her mother’s hand on the bus trip to see her grandparents, or the weight of it against her hair while she’d been combing it – had all of them to do with her mother doing something for her child, never for herself. Is that how she’d meant to spend her life? Is that how lives were meant to be spent?”

Shobha Rao Quote: “And so she decided in that moment – decided, yes, decided, astonished that she could even do such a thing as decide – that she would never again ask forgiveness for a thing she didn’t do, for crimes she could in no way recall committing.”

15. “And so she decided in that moment – decided, yes, decided, astonished that she could even do such a thing as decide – that she would never again ask forgiveness for a thing she didn’t do, for crimes she could in no way recall committing.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “There was nothing for many, many kilometers surrounding the train... and that what she had thought while traveling on the train: that to journey through such emptiness was to invite it inside.”

16. “There was nothing for many, many kilometers surrounding the train... and that what she had thought while traveling on the train: that to journey through such emptiness was to invite it inside.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “She liked how Savitha seemed to savor everything, even the most mundane. “Look at the sky!” she would exclaim. “Have you ever seen so many stars?”

17. “She liked how Savitha seemed to savor everything, even the most mundane. “Look at the sky!” she would exclaim. “Have you ever seen so many stars?”

Shobha Rao Quote: “Forget what I said about a woman who won’t listen. The worst thing is a woman who knows what she wants.”

18. “Forget what I said about a woman who won’t listen. The worst thing is a woman who knows what she wants.”

Shobha Rao Quote: “Understand this Poornima: that it’s better to be swallowed whole than in pieces.”

19. “Understand this Poornima: that it’s better to be swallowed whole than in pieces.”

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