Aditi

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“They all claim to have been built by the author of the Golden Stone sutras, this guy named Purochana who some wizard historians believe was the guy of that name who also shows up in the Mahabharata, more or less working for the prince of Gandhara.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“You should smell the mangoes in India. They smell like sugar melting in the summer heat. How do these have no aroma at all?”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“No, it’s called abibliophobia. It’s literally that—the fear of running out of books. Most bookworms are hoarders of books for that reason.”
― Emma Hart, The Bookworm's Guide to Flirting