This is my second post as part of the blog tour for Rohan Dahiya’s The Bitter Pill Social Club. I’ve read and reviewed it. The review post will be up in a couple of days. Here are some of my favourite quotes from the book:
“The theory of comfort food is perhaps more personal than the clothes one uses to cover themselves from nakedness… The concept at its basest level is a concoction that can not only bring peace to a stressed soul but also evoke the feeling of home, one that’s usually lost in memories as time passes and you lose yourself in the routines of a.m. to p.m.”
“Stars above had fallen around her, serving as a reminder that even though the sun was out they were always around.”
“She was an island and he was lost at sea.”
“… wondered if irrelevance was one of those inevitable things in life… Is the demise of a beautiful girl a gentle progression where people slowly tire of you, or do they just wake up one day and realize they’re simply over it. Over you.”
“They fit together in a way that the air shied away from passing between them.”
“Who was it that had told her of the incomparable rush of cutting wrists? It didn’t matter anymore because what she’d done was worse; she’d talked herself out of it because she couldn’t bear the thought of the pain. That was who she was, the weak girl with a bad heart… That was the reason Sunaina Kochhar stopped looking into the mirror to see if she was still there.”
“… they ask you how you are but they only wait for the hole in your answer to hook their own story into.”
“There is a certain freedom that comes with shedding your older self, sadly it’s one of those very specifically indescribable things about life that exists in the no man’s land of feeling and the absence of it.”
“It was one of those unacknowledged facts of life that everyone had an open mind and liberal heart until the tragedy struck at home.”
“They were grown up versions of the same, tired high school clichés that once trolled around the canteen during lunchtime to ceaselessly judge and bully.”
Going by the quotes above, the book would appear to be very intense. But these lines are used to add dimension to a character or a storyline, to keep them grounded when it’d seem that their head is in the clouds. Overall, I enjoyed reading most of the book. It was interesting to see these characters deconstructed and raw. Stay tuned for my review post!
The Life Stories 