Important passages from Chapter 8


Manny:

-“we brought you up to be a good Punjabi” (p.44,l. 1ff)
-“my dad had already sorted everything out”(p.42,l. 36)
-“I was hearing but not listening”(p.43,l. 10-11)
-“blood will always be blood”(p.44,l. 4)
-“I didn´t know what I was going to do”(p.45,l. 12)
-I mean ,how could I become the cause of so much grief and sadness for my parents?”(p.45,l. 3-4)


Father:

-“is Punjabi first,then come religion”(l.19/20)
-“his voice was super calm”(p.42,l. 18)
-“they wanted him to make a decision”
-emotional blackmail(p.44,l. 20)
-really strict upbringing(p.41,l. 29)
-“I have spoken about a friend of mine in India,about his daugther”(p.42,l. 23)
-“do you want to kill your mother?”(p.42,l. 33f)