Status Updates From Rebel Queen

"We can pave the roads of those around us, but can't choose their direction. Even trying is against the law of samsara."-Shri Rama

"I was becoming a tree rooted in the soil of tragedy."

"One second. One , is all that separates life from death."

-My heart is crumbling

"We all die. Some of us are fortunate enough to die fighting for justice." - Rani Lakshmibai

Sob count- (I've lost count)

"Imagine farting on a stage for everyone to hear, it felt that shocking. Now imagine you're told you'll have to do it all the time." - Sita

OMG Sita what is this analogy lmao

"Do you think we did terrible things in our past lives? To come back as women... perhaps it's a punishment for some previous misdeed?" - Sita

Okay, out of context this sounds so wrong, but inside there, my heart shattered.

My tears burst through me. In public.

No one should have to endure such misery.

"Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"Now it feels like being a fish emptied from the bowl it's spent most of its life in back into the river where it was actually born." - Sita

"Even prisoners can escape of they have books." -Rani Lakshmibai

" 'Love torments you, slender girl, but he completely consumes me. Daylight spares the lotus pond while it destroys the moon.' I could absolutely feel his pain in my chest when he said that, the same as if someone was taking a knife to my chest." -Raja Gangadhar

"... The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books." -Sita