13 Quotes by Rakesh Satyal

The greatest skill that an author could possess, she thought, was the ability to make a reader see a book as his or her child, someone only the reader in question could truly appreciate, love, and protect.

Nothing envisioned a future more inaccurately than naivete.

Books are much better companions to me than people.

I live in a kingdom of one.

Dough is like an Indian mother’s stress ball. Squeeze, roll.

If you had the capacity to shove love into a princess or fury into a winged monster, you had the capacity to generate passion or mirth or humility or patience in yourself. It wasn’t just pen to paper or fingers on a keyboard. It was through your own generosity of imagination that you made yourself good.

Courage is an imaginary construct that people have made to hide their inferiority.

I often think that being a woman in this world must feel like waking up every day to find that someone deleted what you wrote the day before.

The sky will soon lighten as it always does, and there is no more hopeful moment that that: when time is tomorrow but still carries a strain of today, when we’re wiser and reborn all at once.