Julia

“Find your happiness, little thief. Steal it and do not ever let it go.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“It is not always easy to do the right thing. More often than not, it is a lonely, thankless ordeal. That does not mean it is not worth doing.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

“For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered. Discarded. Twisted.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

“You have been blessed; you have been granted the power, the privilege, the time—all these centuries you don’t want—to fix things. And when you finally do face our Creator, do you want to say you spent them wallowing in guilt?” Kartir’s expression grew fierce. “Or would you rather say you spent every extra breath fighting for a more just world?”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold