“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”

“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”

“Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.”

“Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.”

“She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends.”

“Our minds work alike, she thought. She had found her partner, her equal, the one to work and live and love with her. Her soulmate.”

“Kunti to Vidura when she found that her second Bhima had gone missing.”

“She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she was the product of her parents. What she was now was what she herself had decided to become.”

“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”