"If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better"
- Sangu Mandanna
"You,” he says, before the door closes all the way. “I often dream of you."
"But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves."
"Come on," I say, "let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster."
"He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who the killer is in a detective story. I think he could make a career out of detecting, but he want..."
"Just last year, I had to read the old Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Inspired by it, I wished I had been named Draupadi. After all, she, too, had been born differently, even abnormally. She had stepped..."
"I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again,” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me."
"If Sean's voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma's is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer's is the voice of a wild animal. I suddenly think of a movie Ammara and I loved when we were little, and ..."