Swastika Rupal

“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

“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

“She told me to keep myself whole. That there wasn’t any shame in taking care of yourself in order to help those who needed you.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“That made it worse, this passing of a barbed baton between women who, no matter how clever, how powerful, would always be known by the men to whom they were attached.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold