9 Quotes by Rahul Kanakia

The thing is, you can't just be yourself if whenever people look at you they see something entirely different

It’s funny how some things hurt more than others. I suppose I’d always suspected that my real self would be too much for any guy to handle, so when George said those things, it wasn’t that bad. Instead, I was like, Oh yeah, I already knew that.

The thing no one understands about me is that sometimes, once in a while, I get this feeling like I can do anything, and that feeling is so rare and so beautiful that it’s really hard not to simply surrender to it.

I’m not a sympathetic main character. My quirks are not lovable. I am not clumsy. I am not overwhelmed by life. I am not unlucky in love.

If being forced to read Pride and Prejudice in the tenth grade had taught me anything, it’s that I actually needed two guys: a stolid, mildly rude one – Aakash – and a dangerous-but-charming one. In the end, I’d go for the former, of course.

There’s something very appealing about the word anything. Anything. Anything. Anything. I am capable of anything.

I had no emotions left: I was a candle that’d burned all the way down.

I wrote something incredibly sappy and thought about deleting it. But you know what? Text messages are for saying the things you’re afraid to say aloud.

Nowadays, I try not to destroy people unless I am at least 90% sure that they deserve it.