Shatarupa Dhar

“Then we step out of the snow, into cursed warmth and dappled sunlight.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Being pretty wasn't a crime. Wanting to please the eye of a man wasn't a broad invitation to be abused by all of them.”
― Dani Collins, An Heir to Bind Them

“Life is like the oil within a lamp. It can be measured, but the pace at which it burns depends on how the dial is turned day by day, how bright and fierce the flame. And there is no predicting whether the lamp might be knocked to the ground and shatter, when it could have blazed on a great while longer. Such is the unpredictability of life.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“The stone itself bled the malice of ancient things that had languished in darkness for centuries – consciousnesses that did not slumber, minds that did not dream.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns