☆ Lauriane ☆

“But you scratch the surface, it’s crumbling, it’s dying, there’s no future on that miserable island. The same in America. You think India is poor? Go and travel around America. I couldn’t believe it. Meanwhile some backpacker in Paharganj wanders around crying about our poverty, shaking his head, taking pity on us, taking photos for the people back home.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“It is as clear as someone crying in church.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“You don't need to be special or significant to have value. You're just important, always, and people either see that or they don't.”
― Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“I fear I'm a terrible daughter, who ignores her mother; whose fault is to be excessively alive”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts