The Opposite of Love by Durjoy Datta – Quotes—And yet again, Durjoy Datta proved why I am so crazy about his works. The Opposite of Love is a true masterpiece of emotions, and if you haven’t heard the book yet, I am sorry but you are missing a big time. Here are some excerpts from the audiobook that I loved so freaking much. The book is available at Audible Original, tune in to the app’s free trial and hear The Opposite of Love by Durjoy Datta!
- “We stumble upon someone with a massive following on social. We scroll for two minutes and we can’t figure out why this person is famous. Our confusion melts into hatred and judgment, not only for the person but also for their followers. Two Minutes is all it takes.”
- “How we behave in one moment isn’t all there to us. We do bad things, but that does not make us bad people.”
- “One moment of anger or lapse of judgment doesn’t define you. At best, it tells us how we’re raised and how society has trained us. Society trains us to be suspicious, hateful, find differences, and zoom in on those.”
- “The world is tilted in the favor of tall, good-looking people. Confidence and courage come easy to them. But for people who have grappled with acne, extra weight, body hair, an unusual manner of speaking, confidence needs to be faked, before it becomes natural.”
- “Everyone is a fool and idiot, a loser sometimes. So, stop worrying about coming across as one. Step up, embrace the fear, but reject courage and be a fool. Cowardice is worse than foolishness. Be foolish!”
- “When we were babies, we shoved our thumbs in our mouths to soothe ourselves. It was an instinct to distract ourselves, to distract ourselves from how we felt. When we grow up, we shove phones in our faces, our digital pacifiers, and we can scroll away all our feelings. Anxiety? Scroll! Fear? Scroll! Depression? Scroll!”
- “Introverts can predict oncoming silences in conversations. They terrify us. The silence transforms our brains into a self-criticizing war machine.”
- “Extroverts don’t judge their words before they turn them into entire sentences that can be hilarious or boring, stupid or intelligent, comforting or offending. They don’t measure their impact beforehand. They can also get away with the idiotic, silly, or offensive things they say since they don’t overthink their apologies either.”
- “Extroverts are boxers, punching and dodging their way expertly through conversations with optimism and courage, with no regard to what the opponent might be thinking.
- “‘Love at first site’ relies on perfection or imperfections, which we choose to see as perfections.”
- “The problem with calling anyone special is that it sounds like a blatant lie. Every special person is normal to most, even to themselves, especially to themselves. So, when someone who genuinely finds them special calls them that, it sounds dishonest.”
- “It is easy to like people without their baggage.”
- “Our relationship with gods is like the marriages of our grandparents. They didn’t know who they were going to live their lives with, just like we don’t know, which God, which house we are assigned to until we are in the thick of it.”
- “Grief, heartache, pain, and loss become tiresome to others quickly. Empathy has its limits.”
- “Grief looks different on different people.”
- “Guilt is an old friend to everyone nice.”
- “When we find love, we try to mold our partner in the mirror image of ourselves. We make them like the same things we do. When they are watching our favorite movies, we stare at them, checking if they like it as much. We try to sync, we try to match with each other, and this is what breaks us. Shouldn’t love be about revelation and acceptance? Because, after all, we can finally reveal secrets about ourselves without risking shame and embarrassment. You can admit to being angry, horny, unconfident, childish, and fragile. You can drop the pretence and start feeling.”
Also, special kudos to Pallavi Bharti and Suyash Barve for performing so AMAZINGLY. As much as I love the story, plot, and words, it was their performance as well that kept me hooked throughout the book. It was like, even a minute of disturbance while listening to the book made me irritated, I just wanted to keep hearing them so badly!
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