Niyati Joshi

“The sea, you see, feels good for only a few days, but then it starts suffocating you. You first escape to the sea to escape yourself, but after a while that's all you find there. City is better that way. There are too many lanes and alleys. You never run into yourself there.”
― Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“Alex was alone, and the one thing she still had was the freedom to follow the narrative that suited her best.”
― Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

“You just gave her an angry glance in return. It was the kind of glance that children give their parents when they know exactly the kind of total power they have over them and when the temptation to shatter them with one word, one phrase is overwhelming, but something – just the vague knowledge perhaps that the mess they create would be too great to gather – holds them back.”
― Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“Not for you,” Lila replies ardently, “you’re my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend