Zahra

“This is the absolute truth of grief. It is never linear and it is never proportionate or understandable. Especially to other people. It never happens when it should. It doesn't seem to make sense to anyone else.”
― Nikesh Shukla, Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home

“We always expected our external world to reflect our internal one, but it was situations like these that reminded me the world would go on no matter what happened to us individually. It was equal parts reassuring and depressing.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Lies

“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.”
― Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

“There was nothing left of me when I took out all the parts that belonged to her.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Lies