“I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again.
"What happened?" I asked idly.
"I thought...never mind".She blinked.
Ha,gotcha”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from Five Point Someone
“it is only when one writes a book that one realizes the true power of MSWord, from grammar checks to replace-alls.”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from Five Point Someone
“I think half the trees in the world are felled to make up the IIT entrance exam guides. Most of them are crap,”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from Five Point Someone
“It was the first time I’d seen Alok’s home. I told you he was kind of poor, I mean not World Bank ads type starving poor or anything, but his home had the barest minimum one would need for existence. There was light, but no lampshades, there was a living room, but no couches, there was a TV, but not a colour one. The living room was where lived Alok’s father, entertaining himself with one of the two TV channels, close to unconscious by the time we reached. Alok’s mother was already waiting, using her sari edge to wipe her tears.”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from Five Point Someone
“smoke is beautiful; weightless and shapeless, it almost appears as deceptively powerless as the person releasing it, yet, it comes from within and rises above us all. Crap,”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from Five Point Someone
“Sometimes, if you just paraphrase everyone’s arguments, you get to be the good guy.”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from Five Point Someone
“the definition of a machine is simple. It is anything that reduces human effort. Anything.”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from Five Point Someone
“The books we read in literature classes--just innocuous letters and symbols on paper, until we run the words through our brains and allow the fiction to manifest in the real world.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail
“Millions of people, in all walks of life and in every endeavor, create distractions and excuses for themselves by focusing on tools rather than on character. They’d rather, as Socrates warned, focus on what they have than on what they are.”
― quote from Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
“Ahora tenemos la evidencia aceptada de que necesariamente tuvo que haber alguien en la Tierra de una civilización muy desarrollada al menos hace 10,000 años.”
― Drunvalo Melchizedek, quote from The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1
“In the book Daring Greatly, shame researcher Brené Brown introduces the idea of "minding the gap." She's talking about the values gap: the space between who we are now and who we want to be. Minding the gap is part of walking toward the horizon we talked about in the previous chapter. There will always be times when we are imperfect, when we fall short of the best possible versions of ourselves. Minding the gap is being aware of where we are now and striving to move in the direction we want to go. That's part of living with integrity.”
― Franklin Veaux, quote from More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
“For a true name holds true power.”
― T.A. Barron, quote from The Seven Songs of Merlin
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