Archita Mitra

“Simon Snow, it hurts to look at you when you’re this happy. And it hurts to look at you when you’re depressed. There’s no safe time for me to see you, nothing about you that doesn’t tear my heart from my chest and leave it breakable outside my body.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son

“Mom always says,
"You'd be so pretty"
- and all the big girls in the world
can finish this sentence in unison -
"if you lost weight.”
― 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

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