Mehak Rathour

“Does time heal? Time does not always heal. Time scars.”
― Richard Flanagan, Question 7

“A man does not know a woman's value, Firdaus. She is the one who determines her value. The higher you price yourself, the more he will realize what you are really worth, and be prepared to pay with the means at his disposal. And if he has no means, he will steal from someone else to give you what you demand.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“I am speaking the truth now without difficulty. For the truth is always easy and simple. And in its simplicity lies a savage power. I only arrived at the savage, primitive truths of life after years of struggle. For it is only very rarely that people can arrive at the simple, but awesome and powerful truths of life after only a few years. And to have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For truth and death are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them. And truth is like death in that it kills.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“Poetry may make nothing happen, but a novel destroyed Hiroshima and without Hiroshima there is no me and these words erase themselves and me with them.”
― Richard Flanagan, Question 7