Avanthika

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

“The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.”
― Carmen Boullosa, Cleopatra Dismounts

“She sometimes wished she was more thick-skinned, so that she could see nothing, feel nothing.”
― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

“One cannot undo what has happened. But the inexorable march of time offers the wise opportunities for redemption. I entreat you, do not escape. Stay in this world and do your karma.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras