Quotes from Chetan Bhagat

That's what human relationships are about – selective sharing and hiding of information to the point of crazy confusion.

In an Indian love marriage, by the time everyone gets on board, one wonders if there is any love left.

smoke is beautiful; weightless and shapeless, it almost appears as deceptively powerless as the person releasing it, yet, it comes from within and rises above us all. Crap

Everyone is a psycho, and the average of all psychos is what we call normal.

Life is a bitch when the only woman you can think of belongs to someone else.

We have no hope if we cannot prove uncle cynic wrong.

Sometimes, when nobody is by your side, you have to become your own cheering squad.

I feel everyone who has a chance should step out of India for a while to really see what it is like out there.

Most people who own colleges in India haven't. Stupid people go to college. Smart people own them

I thought about my [Punjabi] family. The only nakshatram we think about is the division of petrol pumps when we have to see the girl.

I think half the trees in the world are felled to make up the IIT entrance exam guides. Most of them are crap

the definition of a machine is simple. It is anything that reduces human effort. Anything.

Girls never tell you anything straight out anyway. You have to interpolate and extrapolate their responses to figure out what's on their mind.

Imagine all the sadhus and priests of Varanasi. More than all of their devotion put together, that's how much I loved her.

Nowadays, people don't fall in love. They swipe left and right…

Excel in your field: Whatever you do, try to be the best at it. There is too much mediocrity all around and we have learnt to live with it. However, awesomeness has no place for mediocrity. And do not confuse excellence with elitism. Being excellent at your work is different from considering yourself superior to others.

I love her and we make each other happy. But if our happiness makes so many people unhappy, is it the right thing to do?

Life may not offer you the same chance twice.

When people say 'I quote' and pause, they come across as scary-level intellectuals. Let's face it, nobody wants to mess with the 'I quote' types.

it is only when one writes a book that one realizes the true power of MSWord, from grammar checks to replace-alls.

You need a man to support, inspire. . .understand you. Help you be the best person you can be, banker, mother, both, whatever. And until you find a man you trust enough to do that, why settle?' I

I think the brain has a special box where it keeps crappy memories. It stays shut, but everytime a new entry has to be added, it opens and you can look at what is inside.

If we think it is okay to cheat in exams, lie to a ticket collector in the train about our kids' ages and pay a bit of money to avoid a big traffic fine, then at some level we clearly don't care about eliminating corruption all that much. At

There are things some people can never understand. There's no point telling them.