2 States: The Story Of My Marriage Quotes
"Why am I referred here? I don’t have a problem."
"She didn’t react. Just gestured that I remove my shoes and take the couch."
"I charge five hundred rupees per hour. Stare at the walls or talk. I’m cool either way."
"The pen’s mightier than the sword, one of the first proverbs we learnt, isn’t it?"
"It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it."
"The stuff you said, about being a writer who brings about change. It is really cool. I mean it."
"I can’t be just friends. I’m sure some guys can be friends with girls. I can’t. Not with you."
"You girls don’t know what it is like to be a guy."
"Yes. And I feel sick I didn’t have the courage to fight her father."
"It is amazing how the vulnerability in a relationship shifts from the guy to the girl after you’ve had sex."
"I miss you. Can’t wait to cuddle with you after class."
"You are a whisker away from being in the top ten. One more A in the statistics final exam and you are there."
"You still serious about becoming a writer, right?"
"You know it baffles me, how you men need so much time to think about commitment, but how you need no time at all to decide when you have to sleep with the girl."
"I thought with my grades I will crack Day Zero."
"Love is not enough. You know what you have to do."
"She is a nice girl. She is smart, intelligent, good-looking."
"Mom, stop comparing Ananya to Sridevi and Hema Malini."
"Now would be the time to betray your mother, you idiot."
"Because it will make me happy. Is that reason enough?"
"Petrol pumps sell in cash. Lots of black money."
"She went to IIMA, she is one of the smartest girls in India."
"We believe trainees learn best by facing action. Ready for war?"
"The second important job is to develop a relationship."
"No one needs to ask me permission for going to the toilet."
"It is trading cheap on every multiple conceivable!"
"If you want to be like me, wake up, soldier."
"I’m sorry dude, I am not handing you the remote of my life because you are my boss."
"The beauty of diversity is the bouquet of interests it brings to the table."
"Isn’t this fun? I get a rush every time I come to the bank."
"I hadn’t planned on being a Tamil joke book connoisseur."
"Imagine our kids. They won’t be Tamil or Punjabi. They will be Indian."
"For the sake of my country, we made love again."
"Yes, that one. Intentionally rascal gave me something I don't understand," uncle said.
"Because even as the Citi never sleeps, we make our customers weep."
"You, you said this will double. It's down seventy percent-aa," Ms. Sreenivas said.
"Madam, stock market goes up and down. We do have some other products that are less risky," I said.
"No, this is Citibank. Not a public sector bank," he said.
"Welcome sir, welcome to State Bank of India," Bala said.
"‘You want me to take the blame?’ I hazarded a guess."
"I'm really sorry, my auto met with an accident," I lied.
"‘So, people who work here cannot have life,’ I mumbled."
"‘If you just watch them?’ ‘Just watching …and,’ he said and hesitated, ‘and if you do something else afterwards.’"
"‘Let's not give up,’ she stood up on her toes to kiss me."
"‘Why don’t you tell them! This gradual strategy is obviously not working,’ I said as I opened the menu."
"You will. In fact, that’s why I called you here today. You have a chance to score with dad."
"‘Don't meet Ananya too much. We are simple people, we don't say much. But don’t spoil her name in our community,’ he said."
"I know you are classmates and you are helping Manju. We can be grateful, we can feed you, but we can’t let Ananya marry you."
"‘Am I speaking to my son?’ ‘It’s Krish,’ I said."
"‘You have no qualities I can be proud of. These degrees mean nothing. Just because you send your mother money, you think you can boss around. I think a person like you …’ he was saying when I put the phone down again."
"‘If there is an entrance exam for virginity, you can be sure I won’t top it,’ Ananya said."
"Few decisions about the event. The concert would be held in Fisherman’s Cove, an upmarket resort on the city outskirts."
"‘All set then,’ Bala said as we ended the meeting at six in the evening."
"‘These have no figures, no charts, no specific points even…’ I said, trying to be less critical but truthful as well."
"‘That rascal Verma wants it in a week,’ uncle said."
"For the next three hours, I understood what a deputy district manager does at a public sector bank."
"‘Sorry, I didn’t even ask you for dinner,’ Mr. Swaminathan said."
"‘It’s fine,’ I said as I took the plates off him."
"We ate in silence. For the first time in their house, I felt welcome."
"‘It’s eleven-thirty, I’d better go,’ I said."
"‘Thank you, Krish,’ uncle said as he waved me goodbye."
"‘I am stealing a talented MBA’s time paid for by Citibank. I could go to jail for this,’ I said."
"‘Well, it is pretty business-like. But let’s just say, I saw him smile,' I said."
"‘Yeah, but what is life without being disturbed by the right people,’ I said."
"‘I love you, too,’ I said and hung up the phone."
"‘Don’t say you can’t. C’mon, we will keep it a surprise. We won’t tell uncle. We won’t even tell Ananya if you want.'"
"I’m lonely, mom. I don’t need this from dad."
"Good. And don’t take any nonsense from these Madrasis, give it back to them. They get scared fast,"
"Well, the answers are within us. People stay in the ashram for a few weeks to introspect, they attend satsang and ask questions of one of the gurus."
"That's a pretty stiff deadline to sort out life’s unresolved answers."
"And surely, the girlfriend is more important than the problem."
"You may find it strange to be here. But I’d like to think we were destined to meet."
"Before you build a future, you must fix the past."
"Forgiving doesn’t make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better."
"Sometimes in your life you just meet someone or hear something that nudges you on the right path. And that becomes the best advice."
"When you are used to a hundred people saluting you every day, it is difficult to suck up to uneducated builders to allow you to sell their house."
"Some even said he had a mistress somewhere, though I doubt another woman could survive him."
"Don’t test your luck, Mr. Malhotra, I shall turn violent."
"‘You can win over normal people. Not rude, insensitive people who insult guests,’ she said."
"Until you do it yourself, you don’t realize the effort your mother puts into every meal."
"‘You don’t deprive me of what I deserve,’ my mother said."
"If your mom is sweet, then Hitler is a cuddly toy."
"‘Your dad never gave me anything. You don’t deprive me of what I deserve,’ my mother said."
"You are under her spell. You bring her home. You knead atta for her. You give her two Frootis I had brought for guests. You are so worried about her. What about me?"
"‘I won’t come for the wedding, Kavita,’ my father said."
"‘She is South Indian,’ my mother said, cutting me."
"‘Then why are you eating like a squirrel? Take a proper helping,’ my mother said."
"‘Don’t laugh,’ I said to Ananya, suppressing my own smile."
"‘Oh, people really are careful about what they say around here,’ Ananya said, sarcasm shimmering in her words."
"‘You’ve scored, girl, you know you have,’ I said to Ananya as we tossed flower petals on Duke and Minti."
"‘It’s your decision,’ she said. She passed me a cup of tea."
"Of course, I do, beta," my mother said, her hand on Ananya's head. "But there are other people too, your side of the family."
"Be patient, mom. Over time, the families will get close," I said.
"Isn't love the best investment?" I said and fumbled through my cards to call the travel agent.
"You South Indians have too much brain but too little heart," I said to Bala as he left.
"Stop behaving like a dumbo. He spent seven hours with my parents yesterday. He assured them that I would be treated like a daughter and apologized for any past misgivings."
"Ananya is a nice girl. You shouldn't lose her," my father said.
"I'm not perfect. But don't deprive me of my son in my final years," he said.
"I won't come for the wedding though," my father said.
"You have to come. I'm late for work, but I'll convince you later," I said.