Deetya Kamat

“An Indian woman’s act of political protest was rewritten as hysteria, her sense of duty perceived as desire. In this construct, an Indian woman’s feelings and expressions were never her own; she experienced her womanhood as pathology.”
― Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake