Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
by Balli Kaur Jaswal
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“I saw it a few years ago in a bookshop but didn’t buy it.’ ‘I hate it when that happens. Book regret. You come across something and think, I don’t want that, and later, you’re obsessed with getting it and it’s no longer available.”
“You can separate the idiots from the bloody idiots.”
“In traditional Indian morality tales, wayward children were the primary cause of heart conditions, cancerous lumps, hair loss and other ailments in their aggrieved parents.”
“You waste everything because you’ve always had everything.”
“Out of all the opportunities Britain offered us, choice was the most important thing.”
“Perhaps passion and excitement were meant to be secondary to a stable adult life.”
“Why be with someone who’s making the journey? You could be with someone who has already arrived.”
“Let him find balance and moderation in all things; let him listen to himself and not the noise of others.”
“You come across something and think, I don’t want that, and later, you’re obsessed with getting it and it’s no longer available.”
“Fiery-eyed and indignant, they would pen their stories for the whole world to read.”
“It would be easier to be a criminal fairly prosecuted by the law than an Indian daughter who wronged her family. A crime would be punishable by a jail sentence of definite duration rather than this uncertain length of family guilt trips.”
“she wondered why men needed all that space when their answers to everything were always ‘no’.”
“People are sympathetic at first but when the illness drags on, they start avoiding you, like your bad luck is contagious.”
“One pundit had asked her to visualize herself in the career she wanted while he chanted prayers to make her vision a reality. Her mind had gone blank, and this canvas of nothingness was the image sent up to the Gods.”
“You're not even trying to understand. You're just repeating everything I say.' 'REPEATING EVERYTHING YOU SAY?”
“I hate it when that happens. Book regret. You come across something and think, I don’t want that, and later, you’re obsessed with getting it and it’s no longer available.”
“I gave you all the happiness I couldn’t have. You loved your husband, your marriage. Good for you. I survived mine.”
“My beloved. Your body is an entire galaxy; your moles and dimples a sprinkling of stars. I am just a weary desert traveller, my lips parched and searching for refreshment. Each time I am ready to give up, I look up, and there you lay in the stretch of midnight skies. Your hair billows around you and your hands fall away from your chest, revealing your pale, round breasts. At their tips, your nipples point to greet my puckered lips. I kiss them tenderly and feel the shudder of sensation rock through your body, your world. Between your legs, a flower is moistening itself, its lips plump with anticipation. Your body is an entire galaxy of its own accord. I explore you with my lips, grateful for my thirst to be quenched and when I reach your forbidden garden, my thirst becomes your hunger. Your long legs are draped around my neck, your hips thrusting against my mouth. My lips become wet with your dew. I press them inside you and feel the throb of your blood pulsing into your most intimate places. How grateful I am to have my lips against yours in this way, to connect these blushing parts of ourselves together.”
“She even dared to think that it was worth living the rest of her life for, this closeness with another human being.”
“The laughter that they shared filled the room, a shot of intoxicating warmth like the first hint of summer”
“I’m educated, I’ve done my nursing degree, I’ve got a job – this is the next step.’ ‘It shouldn’t be a step. Acquiring a husband, that’s what you’re doing.”
“Why did she always torture herself like this? Sometimes she got carried away and imagined little moments of Maya's life as it would be. Mundane things like paying for groceries or replacing the batteries in her television remote control. The smaller the details, the harder it hit.”
“Kulwinder turned toward the temple and uttered a quick prayer in gratitude of pleasure. The sensation of contact, the anticipation of a kiss or brush of Sarab’s hand across her bare thigh – such moments were miniscule but they amounted to a lifetime of happiness.”
“There was much to be indignant about. Topless models were still appearing on Page Three of The Sun. Government funding to women's crisis centres were being halved as part of new austerity measures. Female journalists were in danger of being harassed and assaulted while reporting in war zones overseas.”
“why haven’t I picked up English? Because of the English.’ She said this triumphantly. ‘They haven’t made their country or their customs friendly to me. Now their language is just as unfriendly”
“Let him find balance and moderation in all things; let him listen to himself and not the noise of others. Noise.”
“For the first time in their lives they could openly share their most private thoughts and know that they weren’t alone. I helped them to discover that, and I became willing to learn from them as well. Those women were used to turning the other cheek when injustices were committed because it’s inappropriate to get involved, or to go to the police and betray your own. But they didn’t hesitate to help me and put themselves at risk when I was in danger. They know that they’re capable of fighting.”
“Sarab mistook these as tears of relief, but Kulwinder had been transported to the past, when she had given this boy her blessings. He had turned out to be a monster, but at one point, she had called him her son.”
“wondered why men needed all that space when their answers to everything were always ‘no’.”
“Why be with someone who’s making the journey? You could be with someone who has”
