South Asian Literature Quotes

#1. Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home was. It's just a very natural choice.

Jamie Lynn Spears

#2. There's a right thing to do," Holden said.
"You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

James S.A. Corey

#3. When death becomes an escape, when it becomes attractive, the purpose of life is fulfilled. To teach one it's futility, it's worthlessness, that is the purpose of life. Incongruously, its value lies in having imparted that lesson.
Bhanggi

Faiqa Mansab

#4. Where, in Heaven's name, could anyone even be alone in Calcutta? What hanky-panky business, in my mother's words, could go on? Everyone knew the rules and the rules stated caste and community narrowed the range of intimate contact.

Bharati Mukherjee

#5. My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

Neon Hitch

#6. There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.

Patrick Chan

#7. One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies

Kanza Javed

#8. If you don't keep moving, you'll never get anywhere.

Alicia McCalla

#9. Rebellion sounded like a lot of fun, but in Calcutta there was nothing to rebel against. Where would it get you?

Bharati Mukherjee

#10. In the nights though, I couldn't help but weave the golden cloth of my dreams. Each stitch from heart to thought, and thought to heart, was painful to bear, even if it was joyous at times. Because each thread was fraught with the fears of being broken midway, lost and never found again.
Nida

Faiqa Mansab

#11. The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.

Bharati Mukherjee

#12. I think I'm so low key.

Ato Boldon