Swastika Rupal

“I find I can get a more accurate measure of a man when he’s not aware he’s being appraised.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“I find politics loathsome.” “Do you?” Muntadhir waved about the courtyard. “And what do you think all this is if not politics? I find that those who look on politics with contempt are usually the first to be dragged down by them.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“I am who I am because of that human world. It wasn’t the Banu Nahida who’d driven the peris to their knees, it was the con artist of Cairo, and Nahri wouldn’t cast her away.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”
― Katherine Mansfield