Archita Mitra

“I’ve loved him through worse. I’ve loved him hopelessly.… So what’s a little less hope?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son

“Tell me more
about the Fat Girl Rules," Doc says
as she flips through them.
"So these are rules you live by?"
"There sure are a lot of them, Ellie."
"And I add new ones all the time.
I used to think if I could just
follow the rules, then
people would stop
being mean to me.
But, duh, that didn't happen.”
― Lisa Fipps, Starfish

“Already midcareer, Ted published Van Gogh, Painter of Sound, which found correlations between Van Gogh’s types of brushstroke and the proximity of noisemaking creatures like cicadas, bees, crickets, and woodpeckers—whose microscopic traces had been detected in the paint itself.”
― Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

“friendship risks the end of friendship,”
― Jennifer Egan, The Candy House