Shanthanu

“I can taste the good-bye on his lips.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“We were twelve years old, but we walked along the hot streets of the neighborhood, amid the dust and flies that the occasional old trucks stirred up as they passed, like two old ladies taking the measure of lives of disappointment, clinging tightly to each other. No one understood us, only we two—I thought—understood one another.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

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

“Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay