Jane Azinger

“Love can stay. But that’s because it’s not a feeling.”
“What is it, then?”
“It’s a commitment”
“Like an obligation?”
“No, not in a bad way. I just mean it’s a choice you renew every day… the love that commits to the sacrifices, that puts their happiness and needs over mine, that does it daily on repeat-that’s a choice.”
― Karem

“Ohhh, but diarrhea isn’t a woman problem, it’s an everyone problem”
“I do not, have diarrhea.”
“Then…?”
“It’s just in case, okay? What’re you, a cop?”
― Geeta

“I don’t remember ever looking at my mother this way, like I could eat her down to the bone then wipe my bloody mouth on her hair.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Men like him would always look at her and see the things they were glad they weren't: weak, small, timid, powerless. Let them. She'd expended so much energy vying for a broken seat at an uneven table.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens