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

“Vasiyat Mir ne mujh ko yehi ki
Ki sab kuchh hona tu, aashiq na hona.”
― Ralph Russell, A Thousand Yearnings: A book of Urdu Poetry and Prose

“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