Robin

“Omnia vincit amor. Love conquers all things. —VIRGIL”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“The empress—the most important woman in the world—is confined to the Great Within. Women like those who live in the Garden of Fragrant Delights and the Mansion of Golden Light may be among the most elite in China, but we’re also the most constrained, having lived our entire lives in the inner chambers in first our parents’ homes, then our husbands’. Concubines and servants get glimpses of the outside world, but they are bought and sold. Common women—those married to farmers, butchers, and shopkeepers, those who labor in silk factories or sort tea leaves, and those who fall under the category of the Three Aunties and Six Grannies—may work in the outside world of men, but they can’t avoid the hardships that come as a result.”
― Lisa See, Lady Tan's Circle of Women

“The Tenderloin reminds Tahera of Chennai: Fiaz’s car lurches through its jammed streets amid the sound of grating brakes and revving engines, cabs honk, pedestrians surge forward ignoring traffic lights, potholes pockmark the road, dust rises from everything and is everywhere. Pavements are littered with paper, plastic, discarded clothes. The buildings look grimy, their walls rain-stained, their paint peeling.”
― Nawaaz Ahmed, Radiant Fugitives

“all the things considered essential in youth prove with time that they are not.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix