Rajasree Jayaram

“Bravery, she thinks, belongs to girls. But freedom belongs to boys.”
― Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven

“The way I see it, you mostly stop loving a person the same way you stop respecting them. It can happen all at once if something enormous and terrible falls over the two of you. But for the most part, it happens in inches. In a thousand tiny moments of contempt that unravel the image you had of the person you thought you knew.”
― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

“Everyone knows you can't really trust any feeling you have at night - and the later the hour, the less trustworthy it is. Anything you feel after 10pm is suspect, anything after midnight should be discounted altogether.”
― Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

“Early on, we girls learn that life owes us nothing, that womanhood is a spectrum of nuisances, heartbreaks and tragedies.”
― Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven