“Regrets don’t leave. They weren’t mosquito bites. They itch for ever.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“In Abadan I was different, but no one particularly cared. A woman could see herself better where she wasn’t known, I decided.”
― Song of a Captive Bird
― Song of a Captive Bird
“Mine was a country where they said a woman’s nature is riddled with sin, where they claimed that women’s voices had the power to drive men to lust and distract them from matters of both heaven and earth.”
― Song of a Captive Bird
― Song of a Captive Bird
“Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
South Asian Literature
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