Jaan

“The unfortunate status quo is that it is tough for women everywhere, and female friendships are what will carry us through the darkness and absurdity of life. Such connections, however, are not always easily forged in a world keen to divide, mark, and label as “other.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“I kept going to lectures, and every time I left, it felt like I crossed a threshold between dream and reality, sleep and wakefulness.”
― Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

“The amount of bullshit that fell from that fucker’s mouth could fertilize half of India.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“But I think that she was capable of anything because everything had already happened to her. She was fearless because she'd already suffered what the rest of us live in fear of.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens