Mark Anthony

“The moment I saw you, I felt a tug. You are the feeling of falling, the tidal waters, the way a living thing will always turn, seeking light. It isn’t that I think you are good or kind, or even that I love you. It is only that, the moment I saw you, I knew I would seek you out. Just as I sought the deathless waters. Just as I sought my brother. Just as I seek all things—without thought, with nothing but want.”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne

“I am a good liar, Malini thought. It is not my fault you see through me, as if every mask I wear is nothing but gauze, and my love for you a lamp.”
― Tasha Suri, The Lotus Empire

“A child should not be a chain, used to yoke a woman like cattle to a role, a purpose, a life she would not have chosen for herself. And yet she felt then, with an aching resentment, how Vikram would use their child to reduce and erase her. She hated him for that, for stealing the quiet and strange intimacy of her and her own flesh and blood and making it a weapon.”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne

“Don't you know how I love you?’ Malini asked. Those were not soft words. She threw them out like a lash. ‘Don't you know that I hold everyone at bay, that I cannot stand to love anyone and yet I love you utterly? Don't you understand?”
― Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword