“A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.”
“Isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?”
“It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.”
“Most of a husband’s life is spent in doing research on his wife.”
“Ahh, love, why is it so easy to let you in, but so difficult to let you out? Why couldn’t you subsist only two-sided?”
“Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.”
“Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.”
“The only thing God is afraid of is a strong-willed human!”
“People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy.”
“Psychos are in uniform circulation in society.”
“One of the biggest disadvantages of being grown up is seeing the time rush by faster.”
“Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.”
“It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note.”
“On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor.”
“The obvious matters are more imperceptible today.”
“As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.”
“The hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time.”
“I may just be on the outskirts of being okay.”
“With the wolves around, your humbleness is your worst adversary.”
“When the world around is ready to back one unconditionally, one can become as unreasonable, unfair, and coldly sadistic as one likes.”
“It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.”
“A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.”
“How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?”
“You can make any promises as long as you are not going to be there to fulfill them.”
“I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.”
“Not receiving a request through the entitled route is no excuse for not serving it.”
“Anyone can lecture from the butt, only very few can act.”
“They are a family of cows—so humble and honest.”
“In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.”
“Life is kind, and full of great moments, but I think the greatest moment of my life is always ahead of me. When I reach it, there will be another, greater moment to come.”
“Orwell’s famous lesson, “Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
“So what’s the answer, Evie? What do we do?” I pulled a face and scratched my head. “Er…yeah…I’m not so sure. Maybe riot on the streets, raise a revolution and overthrow the entire system?” “Careful now,” Amber replied, spraying more neon pink icing crumbs onto the floor. “Talk like that gets people thrown into psychiatric institutions.”
“Ava’s Mum: – We are not like them, Ava. […] We have to be ready to fight, and when the enemy gets you, one day, you show them what I taught you. When they lock you in the darkness, become an arsonist. When they put you under house arrest, or defile your name in public, or make you live beneath the rules that will suffocate you, become an arsonist. When they put a pistol in your hand and make you shoot your best friend, and when they throw you in a death camp, when you see everyone around you get sick from the poison they’re feeding them, light a fire that will destroy them. A fire they won’t forget the next time they try to do it to someone else.”
“To brood.” Her tone dared him to deny it.
“I had a lot of calls to make.”
Ha. “You were brooding.”
“I was trying to find out if there was a spell that could teleport people into secure places.”
“You were brooding.”
“No one was able to help with that.”
“So the brooding continued.”
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