Today i read HALF GIRLFRIEND , it took me
surely six hours to complete this fantastic book written by one of my favourite
author CHETAN BHAGAT after SIDNEY SHELDON.
I would like to quote some lines from the
text that gazed my interest.
1)‘Why is
Bihar so backward?’ Prof
Gupta said.
I didn’t know the
answer, forget saying it in English. Piyush tried
to speak
on my behalf. ‘Sir, that’s a
question nobody can really
answer.’ But Prof.
Gupta raised a hand. ‘You said
your mother runs a
rural school.You
should know Bihar.’
I kept
quiet.
‘It’s okay.
Answer in Hindi,’ Prof.
Pereira said.
‘Backward compared to what, sir?’ I said in Hindi, looking at Prof.
Gupta.
‘Compared
to the rest of India.’
‘India is
pretty backward,’ I said. ‘One of the
poorest nations in the
world.’
‘Sure. But
why is Bihar the poorest of the poor?’
‘Bad
government,’ Piyush
said, almost as a reflex. Prof. Gupta kept
his eyes
on me.
‘It’s mostly
rural, sir,’ I said.
'People don’t have any
exposure to
modernity
and hold on to backward values. There’s poor education.
Nobody
invests in my state. The government is in bed with criminals
and
together exploit the state and its people.’
Prof
Pereira translated my answer for Prof. Gupta. He nodded as
he heard
it. ‘Your
answers are sensible, but your English is terrible,’ he
said.
‘Would you rather take a sensible student, or someone who speaks
a foreign language well?’
My defiance stumped them all.
2)‘My English is still bad. I have
a Bihari accent,’ he said, without a
trace of self-consciousness,
'French people
have a French accent when they speak English,'
'My English wasn’t even English until..,' he
trailed off and fell silent. I
saw him swallow to keep his
composure.
3)We made eye
contact for nanoseconds, perhaps only in my
imagination. But
in those nanoseconds something happened to my
heart.
No, I wouldn’t
say I fell in love with her. I wouldn’t even say I
felt
attracted to
her. But I felt something deep inside, strong enough for my
heart to say, You have to talk to this girl at least once in your life.
4)
‘My English isn’t good,’ I said, and switched
languages.‘Can I talk
to you in Hindi?’
‘What you
say matters, not the language,’ she said
and smiled
5)At most I keep a journal, and
even that
is rare. You know I’m a quiet person,’ Riya said.
‘I understand.’
‘Thanks. The problem is my
family. They’re obsessed with money.
I’m not.’
‘That’s a good thing, right?’
‘I don’t know. Also, I don’t matter. My brothers do,
because they
will take over the business one
day. I’m supposed to shut up, get
married and leave. The high
point of my life is to have kids and shop.’
‘And that’s not what you want to do?’
‘No!’ she almost shouted. ‘You know me better than that.
Don’t
you?’
‘Sorry.’
‘Sucks
being a girl in this country, I tell you. Sucks.’
6)
'Well, dreams suck.You get
attached to them and they don’t come
true.'
7)
She smiled. ‘Nothing is simple for a girl in
a family like mine,’ she
said.
8)‘Yeah, I barely talk to anyone
at home. Me and my guitar, we’re
happy.’
9)
‘I really like you, Riya. You
mean so much to me. You are the
reason I’ve survived in this place.’
‘So appreciate what we have. Don’t spoil it.’
‘What do we have? What am I to
you?’
'If we kiss, we have something;
if we don’t, then nothing?’ she
said.
I kept quiet.
10)
It is funny how class
works. The moment you are
placed in a higher one, a part of you feels
terrified and alone.
11)
Every guy has a fear of meeting
his girl’s parents. Apparently, there
is a scientific term for it—soceraphobia.
12)
The worst wait in life is
waiting for someone to text back.
It
had many more....
JUST
LOVED TO READ THIS BOOK..........every1 must read it once......!
