#asianlit

kitay was pure. he was the best person she had ever known. kitay shouldn’t know how it felt to call a god of vengeance. kitay was the last thing in the world that was still fundamentally kind and good, and she’d die before she corrupted that.

Do it again with the life after that, and the next, and with each one find it easier.

favourite characters: lady bhumika

“I'd wondered why you chose me instead of Sun Meng, since I'm so much uglier than he was, but now I know the truth: it's because I have breasts. You took one look and knew I was the man for you.” “Now you're laughing about it. You lose a body part, and all of a sudden you're so eager to show off what extras you have?”

gauri mitra moodboard (the lowland by jhumpa lahiri)

"isolation offered its own form of companionship.....it greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night."

“Some say the heavens dictate the rise and fall of empires. Clearly, those peasants have never met me.”