Durjoy Datta · 239 pages
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“Avantika : I know you love me. Yes, you try to get me naked half of the time, but i love you for that too. you are my boyfriend and it's always great to have a boyfriend who gets turned on by a mere touch. Makes life a lot easier.”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from If It's Not Forever. It's Not Love.
“Caring about what others think is the biggest jail one can put oneself in.”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from If It's Not Forever. It's Not Love.
“Being loved and wanted is the most amazing feeling in the world... it's like a whole new experience.”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from If It's Not Forever. It's Not Love.
“When you're in love, it's meant for life, isn't it?”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from If It's Not Forever. It's Not Love.
“Avantika: 'Do I look happy when I am asleep?'
Deb: 'Yes, you do.'
Avantika: 'Then I'm sure I'm dreaming about you'...
These little things are what make my life worth living.”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from If It's Not Forever. It's Not Love.
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“It is not trivial to lie in a report. . . . At the time I wrote it I actually believed what I wrote to be true, fervently. . . . Yet, when I wrote it, I also knew it wasn't true. I call this the lie of two minds.
"I" convinced "myself." The I that did the convincing was the one who needed desperately to justify the entire experience, to make it sane and right and okay and approved. Myself was convinced as the moral self, the part of me I would want to be a judge in a legal system. This moral part of us, however, in these extreme situations, is vulnerable to the overwhelming force of that part of us that needs to justify our actions. . . With this lie I'd lost myself. Perhaps this too adds to the shame.”
― Karl Marlantes, quote from What It is Like to Go to War
“I am sure that deep down Ikhmenev was in a state of turmoil and pain as he witnessed the tears and torment of his poor wife; I am sure it was more agonizing for him than for her - but he could not control himself. This is what happens sometimes even with the most kind-hearted of people, who are nevertheless weak-willed, and who, despite their kind-heartedness, are apt to get carried off into a state of ecstasy when unburdening themselves of their grief and anger, even at the expense of hurting someone innocent, more often than not someone who is dear to them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Insulted and Humiliated
“You're the woman in my life,” he said. “Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from The Next Always
“Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?”
― Aidan Chambers, quote from Postcards from No Man's Land
“In the earl days of their marriage he had discussed with her every aspect of his workday. They'd discussed their hopes and dreams in whispers so as not to awaken the children sleeping in the next room.
Over the years, other obligations had pulled at them, sometimes taking precedence over this quiet pillow talks. Nancy missed them and longed for the days when he had valued her opinion above all others. He still did, she was sure; he just didn't ask for it as frequently as he had before his success was assured.”
― Sandra Brown, quote from Charade
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