That was Kaavya Viswanathan’s reaction when she first saw her book in print, according to this article in The Guardian. Here’s the full quote.
In an interview with The Associated Press before the controversy, Viswanathan talked about the pressures of her new fame and described the first time she saw her novel in print. One Saturday in March in the Harvard bookstore, she happened upon a prominent display of her books, each slapped with a head shot that took up most of the back cover.
“I started to hyperventilate, and I burst into tears,” Viswanathan said at the time.
In retrospect, looks like that was a tell.
