Avanika

“She wasn’t a woman who smiled and said hello.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Mar gayee bulbul qafas mein Keh gayee sayyaad se Apni sunehri gaand mein Tu thoons le fasl-e-bahaar She died in her cage, the little bird, These words she left for her captor – Please take the spring harvest And shove it up your gilded arse”
― Arundhati Roy, Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Addiction has its own mnemonics- skin, smell, the length of the loved one's fingers. In Tilo's case it was the slant of her eyes, the shape of her mouth, the almost invisible scar that slightly altered the symmetry of her lips and made her look defiant even when she did not mean to, the way her nostrils flared, announcing the displeasure even before hr eyes did.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness