Mihr Chand

“This river, a blue garment bordered with rich green life in many hues and patterns, now flows twisted and knotted – rumpled with thirty big dams, 135 medium and 3,000 small dams. This is what they have done to the oldest river in the subcontinent, the dyke of whose valley housed the oldest human settlement and gallery in this part of the world, Bhimbetka; the river that nurtures the Satpura forests, the oldest again. They are now talking of interlinking rivers. It is like infusing all blood types into all bodies. It is mass murder.”
― Venkat Raman Singh Shyam, Finding My Way

“Do you ever feel like you’re only ever watching? I ask Declan. Never really participating. Never really doing. Just always watching.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“What does it feel like, to love someone so much that you’re willing to publicly bare your heart and soul with a black Sharpie?”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“Austin smiles at me while Leah argues with Hazel. Now that I know he’s Ezra’s new maybe-special friend, I pay a little more attention to him than I would have before. He kind of reminds me of a golden retriever, with his floppy blond hair and blue eyes. The first time I saw him in acrylics class, I kind of immediately hated the guy. He’s the sort of person the world adores, just based on the way he looks, a little like the way people obsess over men like Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans and Chris Pine and all the other famous Chrises, plus Ryan Gosling, claiming that they’re liberal and that they aren’t racist and that they’re feminists, but not really thinking about why they’re so obsessed with white men, and why they don’t love any people of color the same way. I love that I have brown skin. I love that I’m queer, and that I’m trans. But sometimes, I can’t help but think how much easier my life would be if I was someone like Austin.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After