Star Daughter QUOTES

1 " Sheetal woke night after night singing songs no human knew... "

― Shveta Thakrar , Star Daughter

3 " It wasn’t just that he’d lied, as much as that rankled. But by not telling her the truth, he’d cheated her. She could have had one more person who shared her secret, someone she could’ve been herself with while hiding from the rest of the world. "

― Shveta Thakrar , Star Daughter

5 " Except for a few handfuls of dreamers here and there, mortals had built themselves a new fantasy, a boring one where they already knew everything worth knowing—all empirical evidence and explicitly defined labels. Anything else was foolish superstition and couldn’t possibly exist. "

― Shveta Thakrar , Star Daughter

7 " People had to grow on their own, make their own decisions, good and bad. It was those mistakes and the choice or refusal to learn from them that gave life—and art—their texture, their meaning. It had to be a choice. "

― Shveta Thakrar , Star Daughter

9 " What did she want? Adventures. Cupcakes and kulfi. To be star bright and mortal dark and make her own choices, too. To not be bound by other people’s expectations.

More than anything, to be seen. "

― Shveta Thakrar , Star Daughter

11 " It was funny, the way things changed. How people could be shocked by something, a bit of information that didn't fit what they knew of the world, and then expand and grow around it, into it, until it became part of them, just another piece in an overarching narrative. "

― Shveta Thakrar , Star Daughter

13 " Seizing power is one thing, and holding it is quite another,” she said. “It is like trying to grasp water or sand; eventually it spills through the cracks and into the hands of those keen to catch it. "

― Shveta Thakrar , Star Daughter