Jaan

“But you also can’t be a doormat. So you must exercise kindness and judgment. Not everyone will deserve your kindness. When they show you they’re not worthy, believe them.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“But from the get-go, they trained boys not to apologize and women to not expect it of them, to instead mutate pain into an art form.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“She loved him no longer, it was true, but often the memory of love was more powerful than the love itself. For a short while that had felt like a long while, he'd been her world. But her world was bigger now.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“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