The Jewel in the Crown
Quotes from the Book
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.
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