Aditya Vijaykumar

“What did I learn that day in the sabha?
All this time I'd believed in my power over my husbands. I'd believed that because they loved me they would do anything for me. But now I saw that though they did love me—as much perhaps as any man can love—there were other things they loved more. Their notions of honor, of loyalty toward each other, of reputation were more important to them than my suffering. They would avenge me later, yes, but only when they felt the circumstances would bring them heroic fame. A woman doesn't think that way. I would have thrown myself forward to save them if it had been in my power that day. I wouldn't have cared what anyone thought. The choice they made in the moment of my need changed something in our relationship. I no longer depended on them so completely in the future. And when I took care to guard myself from hurt, it was as much from them as from our enemies”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.”
― Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

“My love, I feel terrible without you. It is like being with you.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness Of Other People

“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”
― Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar