Advika and the Hollywood Wives Quotes

“Everyone's grief is on a different timetable. You'll know when you're ready. ... I lost my grandmother when I was nine, and while it's not the same as your grief, the loss was like a piece of gum. The longer I chewed it, the less flavor it had. And then one day I swallowed it. So I'm not chewing it every day, but it's still inside me. And I heard that gum takes, like, seventy-two years to digest, so ...”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“to the women whose accomplishments have been diminished, whose careers have been unjustly derailed, or whose worthy stories have never been told. Thank you for your sacrifices and perseverance. Your light reaches us still.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“And you, Addi—you were never going to be some great screenwriter. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your work. At the very least, the two of us coming together to have a child—that would mean something. Give your life, and mine, meaning.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“Each of them had radiated talent and ambition, and that was what drew them to Julian, who had basically acted as a parasite, draining them of what made them special to benefit his own needs.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“That’s ridiculous. Once we were divorced, I didn’t give a flying fuck about her. She was washed-up, useless. I have no idea what’s even on this ‘film reel,’” he said, making quotation marks with his fingers.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“He made it impossible for me to carve out a career in the States. He took something important to me, so I returned the favor.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“Advika marveled at how Victoria had successfully distanced herself from a marriage that could have easily defined her for the rest of her life.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“I don’t mean to laugh, but man, this guy loves to wine and dine Asian women until they marry him. He has a type.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“As much as her co-stars threw passive-aggressive remarks her way, mostly about her Asianness, they all gravitated toward Victoria too and wanted her favor.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“I’ve been working on the documentary since graduation, and I still feel miles away from finishing. My family has stopped asking me about it; that’s how I know they’ve given up on me. And the hardest thing is that I think this doc could be really special, but it’s just… I just don’t see an end in sight. Meanwhile, I’m going from apartment to apartment every time my lease is up, working at the same coffeehouse for three years… I’ll be pouring coffee until I’m fifty.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“You and your perfect life and your law school applications… What do you know about creative struggles?”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“Sorry. I’m just a sentimental guy like that. But Nova sat on that sofa, and so did Carole King and Joan Armatrading. It feels like a part of music history.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“You’re not Rapunzel, you know. Stranded in a tower. You have autonomy.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“Because this isn’t working for me. I’m not the Watson to your Sherlock Holmes. I have a life. I have credit card debt. I have to get back to the real world.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“can help! We can get you a glam squad just like the Kardashians…” Advika nodded,”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“It’s her husband,” one commenter wrote. “He owns the rights to her music but has done shit with them. I read about it in an interview with her mother and brother. They hate the guy.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“I’ve given you everything: a home, help with your career, a comfortable life. And yet you refuse to think seriously about starting a family, even though you know how important it is to me. You’ll go see some aunty or a friend and take care of their needs. But what about me, Addi? What about your husband?”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“Julian had cost her that job. He had sabotaged her. Just like he had sabotaged Evie when she wanted to pursue the kind of film career he deemed wasn’t right for her.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“To learn about how Julian had treated Evie during their marriage—absorbing her talents and connections and beauty to launch his career, then coldly cutting ties when she was no longer of use to him—brought up parallels to her own marriage.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“She was a real person. A real person whose dreams were dashed by Advika’s own husband.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“With no new income coming in, Evie couldn’t afford to fight Julian and his phalanx of divorce lawyers for an equitable settlement.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“She considered her worst acting role to be having to pretend she was happily married to Julian while they were both cheating.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“But it was still strange to see echoes of Julian’s moves with other women, long before she had been born.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“And why had Evie waited to do this “child bride” ultimatum until after she passed away? If she wanted Advika to know something about Julian, why wait until after she had married him?”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“Evie’s presence in the movie elevated it into something watchable, despite the racist and sexist humor pervading nearly every scene.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“Advika could no longer throw her hands up with all the women Destiny’s Child saluted in their song. She really was just a trophy wife.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“The thought of returning to a life of long hours and meager tips, feet squished in cheap shoes, face muscles exhausted from smiling for hours on end, made Advika feel nauseous.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“My, my—don’t we think highly of ourselves?” Eloisa recrossed her absurdly shiny legs, and the sleek movement resembled scissors slicing the air. “You think you belong in the pantheon of Julian Zelding’s great loves, do you?”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“The makeover had been a confidence injection into her spine. She had never expected to live out her second-favorite part of romantic comedies, but evolving from ugly duckling to graceful swan had lived up to her every fantasy.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives

“Too many memories were battering her on all sides, but most of all, it was the pain of her parents’ abandonment that dug into her and left marks, in the same way the bikini bottom was too tight against her skin.”
― Kirthana Ramisetti, Advika and the Hollywood Wives