Jaan

“But from the get-go, they trained boys not to apologize and women to not expect it of them, to instead mutate pain into an art form.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“I suddenly knew nothing about myself, nothing seemed right in English, nothing was true.”
― Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

“She loved him no longer, it was true, but often the memory of love was more powerful than the love itself. For a short while that had felt like a long while, he'd been her world. But her world was bigger now.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“The women feast on the poor man’s flesh, And chew each bone whilst it is fresh, So the two women can become one with a kiss.”
― Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot