Chai with Books

“What happens after catastrophes? Those who survive nurse their broken hearts and start all over again, as one always does, as one always must.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“Women in pain give men confidence.”
― Sable Sorensen, Dire Bound

“It is an odd thing, to lose faith in the beliefs you once held firmly. How strange it is to have carried your convictions like a set of keys, only to realize they will not open any doors.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“But"—Aurore's jaw trembled slightly—"she doesn't deserve to be forgotten like this. She shouldn't be a footnote. This shouldn't be the only entry she even has. She deserves her own chapter. She deserves a whole bloody book of her own.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled