“These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable.
Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fantasy.”
― Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fantasy.”
― Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
“I would take a thousand fights with Jules over a thousand easy days with anyone else. Because I didn't want easy. I wanted her.”
― Twisted Hate
― Twisted Hate
“I was so absorbed in the things that I couldn’t change, I forgot the most important thing.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“The day people stopped thinking they could change someone who didn’t want to be changed was the day fewer hearts got broken.”
― Twisted Lies
― Twisted Lies
“You don’t have to work overtime to get people to love you, Ava. Love isn’t earned, it’s given.”
― Twisted Love
― Twisted Love
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