I was seized by the strange unfounded idea that she was debating whether or not to say I love you. But the difference between us was that she assumed people just knew those sorts of things, while I was always worried that they didn’t.


“But from the get-go, they trained boys not to apologize and women to not expect it of them, to instead mutate pain into an art form.”
― The Bandit Queens
― The Bandit Queens

“Thank you for coming but kindly remove your crazy asses from our holy ground.”
― The September House
― The September House

“There was a Geeta before Ramesh’s hands had found her, and that Geeta was still alive, and even if no one else was interested in knowing her, Geeta was.”
― The Bandit Queens
― The Bandit Queens

“In a world where her vagina was a liability, was there even room for petty things like love?”
― The Bandit Queens
― The Bandit Queens

“This wasn’t my first time trying to prepare a meal while dodging the fangs of a dead child who wished me bodily harm.”
― The September House
― The September House
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