Swarnika Sankhla

“These scams enraged them, and from the crucible of their fury, they themselves emerged pure. They wanted corruption removed from the root, so that honest people could prosper for a change, as if they had no role to play in the shape of their lives, in the fate of their cities and their country, as if these stories of graft unfolded in black vacuum.”
― Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

“She does not get out of bed for fourteen hours; she has no sense of time, the clock says so. She just lies there, boneless and hopeless. Her mouth is dry; she rolls her tongue around her teeth and feels moss. How gross, she thinks, distracted for a moment. A smile slips through the picket lines and perches itself on her face, till it is blown off by remembrance.”
― Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

“Why do I love him?...I don't think love has a reason...I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she was setting? The first time she'd kept from raising her hand because she didn't want to seem too smart or too eager? No one had sung? No one had told her how much she would lose until the time for grieving was long over.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer