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When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1) QUOTES

When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1) QUOTES

21 " Hello, future wife,” he said, his voice bubbling with glee. “I can’t wait to get started on the rest of our lives! "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

22 " She set her book carefully down, dog-earing a corner of her page with love. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

23 " If this was how Rishi Patel showed his interest in her, if this was him wooing her, she wanted more. More, more, more. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

24 " I was so afraid of going down the same path as my parents, of ending up in the same domestic life, that I forgot to consider one thing: This is our life. We get to decide the rules. We get to say what goes and what stays, what matters and what doesn't. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

25 " It was sort of nice that she didn’t need to explain the hovering, how it really came from a place of love. Rishi got that this was just what moms and dads did in their world. Dimple "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

26 " It was like two invisible puppeteers, standing stage left and stage right, were yanking on strings to lift up the corners of her mouth. Okay, "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

27 " He’d just been waiting for her to catch up to him. And, "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

28 " So, just based on first day impressions, who do you guys think is going to win Insomnia Con?” Celia asked between bites of her $42 mac and cheese. Dimple couldn’t help calculating the value of each bite. There goes $2. And another $2. She didn’t even properly chew up that $2. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

29 " Dimple thought of Insomnia Con, of Jenny Lindt, of SFSU, of Stanford. Of all the things she’d jeopardize if she called Ritu auntie a backward, antifeminist blight on democratic society. Thankfully, "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

30 " She wept for her hardheadedness, and for a world that couldn’t just let her be both, a woman in love and a woman with a career, without flares of guilt and self-doubt seeping in and wrecking havoc. No one she knew had balanced both. There was either work or love. Wanting both felt like a huge ask, it felt like wishing for hot ice cream or a bitter sugar cube. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

31 " Rishi kissed her with purpose, with meaning, like he believed this was exactly where they were supposed to be in this moment. He kissed her till she believed it too. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

32 " One of the guys held his hand out so the door wouldn’t close, but Rishi smiled brightly. “Oh no, you go ahead,” he said jovially. “Our brains need a break from all the unchecked, casual misogyny.” The "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

33 " She’d say this for him: He had no guile. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

34 " He should just say it. ‘That’s because we . . . we’re supposed to be getting married. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

35 " Dimple opened her mouth to say that, yeah, in her opinion misogyny was complicated. Mainly because of the way it was integrated into the very fabric of society, which made it hard to see when a guy was being a total d-bag to you. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

36 " Did you know each other from outside of this class?” Rishi felt something hot pressing its weight against his diaphragm. Your spirits are already friends. That was it, he thought. Even though this was the first day he’d spent any kind of extended time with Dimple, he felt like he already knew her. Like they were continuing a conversation they’d left off. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

37 " With a lurch Rishi realized his brain was also diverting blood flow to other parts of his body. He immediately began to think of Nani, his grandmother with the hairy mole on her neck jowls. Yep. That did it. Whew. Crisis averted. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

38 " And they’re still so intricately connected to us. We have their names, their rituals, their traditions. Their dreams sit behind our eyelids. I think it’s beautiful. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

39 " Sometimes I dream in watercolour. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

40 " Emily Brontë quote popped into her head: “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. "

― Sandhya Menon , When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)