Quotes from Chandra Prasad

Sometimes girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, don't get a fair break. Too many of us have been bred to timidity. That is why those who escape must run, not stroll, toward what they desire. They mustn't look back. They mustn't question their own instincts. And they mustn't listen to the naysayers. If they can only follow their own true course, well then, they will be as renowned for their bravery as the greatest men are.

In the mornings I awoke with salty crust of tears around my eyes--my grief struggling to surface when I was in my weakest, lost in sleep. But by day I would not allow myself to feel. My misery was muted; it had to be. If I faced it in earnest, I would truly drown.

I didn't know how it had happened. Maybe we'd forgotten the rules of normal society. Maybe we'd finally given ourselves over to the wildness of the island. Or maybe we'd been savage our wholes lives, rash and animalistic in the inside, and never known it till now.