Shruti Chakravarty

“We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“You don't fall in love with a gender, Anna-Lena. You fall in love with an idiot." Anna-Lena started laughing as well, much louder than she usually did. Then they looked at each other. Anna-Lena was twice Julia's age but they had a lot in common just then. Both married to idiots who didn't know the difference between different types of hair.”
― Frederik Backman

“Us girls, we have been trained for years: “Say that you were the one who wanted to sleep with the customer. You just wanted some money. Got it?” So the girl gets jailed and fined for prostitution, and vilified in society as someone who does this for easy money. The girls who die in the process—the ones who are beaten to death or the ones who kill themselves—they don’t even make the news.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“The only gentlemen I ever see are in those dramas on TV. Those men are kind. They protect you and cry and stand up to their families for you”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face