" From here, I could learn what no tutor could teach—the way power settles over people in a room, the way language curls around ankles like a sated cat or flicks a forked tongue in caution, the way to enthralled an audience. And I could understand, almost, the lives and histories scrawled into the lines and lines of the records stowed away in the archival building. (p. 18) "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)