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“Consider this my little gift to you. An early wedding present, if you will. Max, you didn’t encourage me to cancel the wedding. You spent most of the night talking about where you’d spend your honeymoon if you ever got married.”
― Mia Sosa, The Worst Best Man

“Happy fucking thirtieth birthday to me.”
― Nisha Sharma, Dating Dr. Dil

“Was it normal to want to cancel and go home to read?”
― Nisha Sharma, Dating Dr. Dil

“Guyana.”
― Sienna Snow, Dangerous King

“My mother’s being Afro-Trinidadian and my father’s being Indian.”
― Sienna Snow, Dangerous King

“I may have done a little reading up on the sport,�� I said. I’d done a lot of research. I’d reread Rock Bottom Girl and watched Ted Lasso, Bend it Like Beckham, and She’s the Man for good measure”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Jets off to Marble, lavish shopping spree from what I can see, and staying at the most expensive hotel in California. I’d say we got a Masala Mama on our hands. Shouldn’t Sammy be your Dosa Daddy?”
― Sonya K. Singh, Sari, Not Sari

“But we could go to therapy or something whenever we get settled again. She’s going to need it after being brainwashed like she was.”
― Colleen Hoover, Too Late

“And…that’s the problem with good friends—they know when something’s up, even when you don’t tell them.”
― Kate Spencer, In a New York Minute

“I think that’s typical of the immigrant experience, the moral conundrum of being born first-generation American. You’re always so hyperaware of your “otherness,�� of the ways you stand out. What makes you an individual innately becomes your greatest weakness, not a strength. Unique becomes a dirty word. People-pleasing is a product of that struggle.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, A Hundred Other Girls

“I used to dread Mondays. I thought of them as the broccoli of weekdays, harsh and bitter, only paying off in the long haul with no immediate rewards.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, A Hundred Other Girls

“Most people aren’t “good�� or “bad,�� “woke�� or “bigoted.�� The majority of us just exist in a gray area, trying to make the right decisions and to cover our tracks when we make the wrong ones. It’s survival of the fittest, really. And sometimes, the most socially aware can be the most problematic of them all.”
― Iman Hariri-Kia, A Hundred Other Girls

“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“I take another bite of my burrito bowl and wish I wasn’t trying to be all dainty around this guy, because the chicken is on fire today and I want to shovel it in my mouth.”
― Meghan Quinn, A Not So Meet Cute

“Why did human beings need love from where they wanted it rather than from where they were getting it?”
― Sonali Dev, The Vibrant Years

“I’ve long believed literature’s greatest superpower is how it makes us feel less alone.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“that life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we’re all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Why do we do this? Why do we undervalue things when we have them? Why is it only on the verge of losing something that we see how much we need it?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“Strength—real strength—is not doing what someone asks you, necessarily. Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love. Strength is being in that terrible room hour after hour even though every cell in your body is telling you it’s too much for you to cope with.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“She said to me once that sometimes, it really sucks being a diaspora kid. We’re not fully accepted in the US, but we’re not fully embraced in India, either. We are our own people. We belong to each other. That means understanding that you can be marginalized in one place and privileged in another. Or marginalized and privileged at the same time and the same space.”
― Nisha Sharma, The Karma Map

“Samara shook her head with a wry smile. She’d expected a halfway house and had instead landed in a minefield full of furtive calls, surly cooks, unpopular fiancées, men of mystery, and one lonely widow. It was going to be an interesting couple of months.”
― Trisha Das, Never Meant to Stay

“Well, when we’re young, we live more authentically. But as we get older and become closer to our deaths, our perception changes. We live in a more fearful state.�� I felt everyone staring at me. “It’s ironic because it’s when we’re older—when we’re approaching death and running out of time to live—that we should embrace life. However, most of us do the opposite.�� I set my book on the table. I didn’t want to speak anymore.”
― Angela Brown, Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time

“There was something just so reassuring about books. They had beginnings and middles and ends, and if you didn’t like a part, you could skip to the next chapter. If someone died, you could stop on the last page before, and they’d live on forever. Happy endings were definite, evils defeated, and the good lasted forever.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Mom, you spent two and a half decades telling me to focus on school and work and not to think about boys. Maybe the reason I’m not married is because I’m such a guai nui.�� Such a good girl. It’s one of the only Cantonese phrases she knows, the one her parents and her grandparents would say to her as a compliment—when they were in front of their friends, when she did something they approved of, when they were reassuring each other in hushed tones after the funeral that Helen would never do something like this. Helen has always been a good girl. She remembers her frustration watching Michelle move through the world and finding ways to upset everyone, all the time. She had envied it a little bit too—the idea of just not caring seemed so foreign to her, she sometimes couldn’t believe they had the same parents. She recognizes an uncharitable feeling of resentment rise against her little sister, even all these years later.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“It’s been a good day, spending time with my parents, letting them into my life. She spends so much of her time experiencing a low-grade resentment toward them, over a million little injustices from childhood that don’t really matter anymore, she’s forgotten this feeling—when she’s happy, and they’re happy, and they feel like what she thinks of when she thinks of a happy, loving family.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“This is as close as I get to life on the edge: a milky tea and a near-white rug.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“You kissed me.�� His brow shoots up. “I thought that was what you wanted. I thought that’s what we were doing.�� “No, I know.�� I step back, my spine meeting the side of the bench seat. “We were. I just—it’s different now.�� “What do you mean?�� “I don’t want to play that game anymore,�� I say. “I don’t want you to say things you don’t mean and do things you don’t want to do. It’s confusing.�� “Who says I did anything I don’t want to do?�� he asks. “You did,�� I fire back. “You’re the one who told me you don’t want anything to happen between us—�� “I never said that,�� he argues, stepping closer. “—and I don’t want to be a prop to make your ex jealous, and I know I started it—�� “You’re not a prop,�� he says, looking hurt. “That’s exactly what I just was,�� I counter. “You only want to kiss me when they’re there to see it. And I know I started it, but things are different now.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Anyway, you never know, she might turn out to be right. Maybe you will meet someone at the wedding.�� I groan loudly. I’ve fantasised about meeting The One at weddings since I was fifteen. We’d bump into each other on the dance floor, my bangle would get caught on the sleeve of his kurta and in the process of untangling ourselves, he would fall in love with the way a faint blush bloomed across my perfect cheekbones. Cheekbones that neither fifteen-year-old Sunny, nor indeed thirty-year-old Sunny, possessed. Bollywood has a lot to answer for �� especially heightening the romantic expectations of shy, chubby Indian teenagers from Gravesend.”
― Sukh Ojla, Sunny: Heartwarming and utterly relatable - the dazzling debut novel by comedian, writer and actor Sukh Ojla

“Kettle or desi?�� I ask. Different occasions call for different types of tea. Standard tea �� a teabag and boiling water �� is for when you’re in a rush or feeling lazy, and desi is for cold mornings and chilly autumn days like today when only a mug of strong, peppery tea will do.”
― Sukh Ojla, Sunny: Heartwarming and utterly relatable - the dazzling debut novel by comedian, writer and actor Sukh Ojla