Anandi Bhattacharya

“Our lives reflect our hearts.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“Why the fuck is everyone in this kingdom trying to murder my wife?”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“I may be injured; I may even be wounded to the heart; but I’m not defeated yet.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen

“A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts, acts, atoms and wounds, love, indifference, and dislike; also of his race and nation, the soil that fed him, and his forebears, the stones and sands of his familiar places, long-silenced battles and struggles of conscience, of the smiles of girls and the slow utterance of old women, of accidents and the gradual action of inexorable law, of all this and something else too, a single flame which in every way obeys the laws that pertain to Fire itself, and yet is lit and put out from one moment to the next, and can never be relumed in the whole waste of time to come.”
― A. S. Byatt, Possession