Anusha Gurumurthy

“You believe that you keep yourself safe, she thought. You lock up your mind and guard your reactions so nobody, not an interrogator or a parent or a friend, will break in. You earn a graduate degree and a good position. You keep your savings in foreign currency and you pay your bills on time. When your colleagues ask you about your home life, you don't answer. You work harder. You exercise. Your clothing flatters. You keep the edge of your affection sharp, a knife, so that those near you know how to handle it carefully. You think you established some protection and then you discover that you endangered yourself to everyone you ever met.”
― Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

“The well-being of any household rests on selective acts of blindness and deafness.”
― Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

“Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give