Samarpita Dutta

“My parents used to have so many family friends, uncles and aunties whom I’d known my whole life. Who would’ve hosted me in a heartbeat. But that was before they’d had a falling-out. Well, really, that was before my parents had been pushed out, basically ostracized after everything that had happened with my sister.”
― Naina Kumar, Flirting with Disaster

“But I was pleasantly surprised to see that someone had given the furniture department a bit of a makeover and there were a few lounge suites that looked like they’d actually been designed sometime after the fall of the Berlin Wall (as opposed to before the building of it).”
― Fiona Leitch, Murder on the Menu

“Sunday. Ah, Sunday. What would life be without Sundays? That melancholy day that seems to stretch out forever and yet still seems to be over too soon.”
― T E Kinsey, In the Market for Murder

“Somewhere between Omaha and Colorado I’d fallen truly, madly, fucking ridiculously hard for Bailey Mitchell. She was all I could think about, all the time, and sometimes it felt like I’d do anything—anything—just to make sure she was happy.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You