“She’s inching forward.Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?”
―
Adiba Jaigirdar,
The Henna Wars
“I've never really thought about having a type. I guess my type is....beautiful girl. Which is a lot of them. Most of them? Pretty much all girls.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“Sometimes I think that maybe I like guys more as a concept than a reality.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“What I want more than anything else in the world is to feel like being myself isn't something that should be hidden and a secret. What I want is for my parents to be outraged that someone betrayed me, not ashamed of my identity.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“My point, dear sister, is that we all have people who we bend ourselves for the approval of. For you and me, it's Ammu and Abbu. For Hani, it's her friends. We all need to fit in, or need approval. You and Hani aren't that different, if you think about it.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“You made a mistake, and your Abba made a mistake too. It doesn’t make anybody the worst anything in the world. It just makes us human.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“This is one of those moments that I want to bottle up and keep with me forever. Not because it's extraordinary, or because it's the kind of thing you would find in a Bollywood movie. But because it's the kind of moment I could never have dreamed of having in a million years.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“What I want more than anything else in the world is to feel like being myself isn’t something that should be hidden and a secret.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“I’m standing for … me. For you. For us, I guess.”It doesn’t seem like much. But sometimes just being yourself—really, truly yourself—can be the most difficult thing to be” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“Ishu smiles, and my breath hitches at the sight of it. She smiles so rarely that each one – the genuine ones that light up her entire being – feels like a gift. Like something private she has only reserved for me.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“Sometimes I think that maybe I like guys more as a concept than a reality. And girls more as a reality than a concept.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“It doesn’t seem like much. But sometimes just being yourself—really, truly yourself—can be the most difficult thing to be.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Henna Wars, The
“Right now, all men seem overwhelmingly unattractive - except the ones on the Netflix shows I watch.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“Family is complicated, Hani. Everyone has a different relationship with their family.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“Doctor, teacher, engineer, our Nishat could be anything she wants to be," Abbu says, clapping me on the back proudly. It's the most he's said to me in weeks, but there's a plasticity to his smile, a solemness to his voice. Nishat can be anything she wants to be, except herself.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“I want to ask her again, why. Why is she friends with people who don’t let her be who she is? Who make her feel uncomfortable and embarrassed of who she is?” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“Gathered up in her arms with the beat of Bollywood music all around me, everything feels strangely right. Like noneof the bad stuff even matters any more. Because as long as Hani and I are side-by-side, everything will be all right.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“The thought of telling someone about this feels almost as bad as the fact that it happened.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“It’s like … heterophobia.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“I've never really thought about having a type. I guess my type is....beautiful girl. Which is a lot of them. Most of them? Pretty much all girls.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“Sometimes I think that maybe I like guys more as a concept than a reality.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“What I want more than anything else in the world is to feel like being myself isn't something that should be hidden and a secret. What I want is for my parents to be outraged that someone betrayed me, not ashamed of my identity.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“My point, dear sister, is that we all have people who we bend ourselves for the approval of. For you and me, it's Ammu and Abbu. For Hani, it's her friends. We all need to fit in, or need approval. You and Hani aren't that different, if you think about it.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“You made a mistake, and your Abba made a mistake too. It doesn’t make anybody the worst anything in the world. It just makes us human.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“This is one of those moments that I want to bottle up and keep with me forever. Not because it's extraordinary, or because it's the kind of thing you would find in a Bollywood movie. But because it's the kind of moment I could never have dreamed of having in a million years.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“What I want more than anything else in the world is to feel like being myself isn’t something that should be hidden and a secret.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“I’m standing for … me. For you. For us, I guess.”It doesn’t seem like much. But sometimes just being yourself—really, truly yourself—can be the most difficult thing to be” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“Ishu smiles, and my breath hitches at the sight of it. She smiles so rarely that each one – the genuine ones that light up her entire being – feels like a gift. Like something private she has only reserved for me.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“Sometimes I think that maybe I like guys more as a concept than a reality. And girls more as a reality than a concept.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“It doesn’t seem like much. But sometimes just being yourself—really, truly yourself—can be the most difficult thing to be.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Henna Wars, The
“Right now, all men seem overwhelmingly unattractive - except the ones on the Netflix shows I watch.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“Family is complicated, Hani. Everyone has a different relationship with their family.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“Doctor, teacher, engineer, our Nishat could be anything she wants to be," Abbu says, clapping me on the back proudly. It's the most he's said to me in weeks, but there's a plasticity to his smile, a solemness to his voice. Nishat can be anything she wants to be, except herself.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“I want to ask her again, why. Why is she friends with people who don’t let her be who she is? Who make her feel uncomfortable and embarrassed of who she is?” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“Gathered up in her arms with the beat of Bollywood music all around me, everything feels strangely right. Like noneof the bad stuff even matters any more. Because as long as Hani and I are side-by-side, everything will be all right.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
“The thought of telling someone about this feels almost as bad as the fact that it happened.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
“It’s like … heterophobia.” ― Adiba Jaigirdar, Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
