“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
“Connection,” I said. “Not just between one idea and another, but between people.”
― Song of a Captive Bird
― Song of a Captive Bird
“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Regrets don’t leave. They weren’t mosquito bites. They itch for ever.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“By insulting people’s intelligence you lose any chance to educate them, and in refusing the validity of their perspective you’ve denied yourself the main purpose of making art.”
― Song of a Captive Bird
― Song of a Captive Bird
South Asian Literature
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