We are the children of gods and angels.

The king is dead. Long live the queen.

Through the whirlwind, I hear my father's harsh whi

He was the last thread suspending me in the light. Without him, I can feel myself spiraling downward, falling to a place where I can no longer pull myself back up.

The darkness seeps in a little more every day. What have I done? How can I be like this?

How many times have you been called an abomination?” he whispers. “A monster? Worthle

No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like

Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.

Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that wiil devour your very soul.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.

There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.