Shoaib Rashdi > Quotes

“You say move on
I can't but rue on”
― Shoaib Rashdi, Oblivion's Yelp

“Sometimes I prop open a picture of you
To elicit the love that is now torture
For even in billion parts torture, one part still drips with infinite love”
― Shoaib Rashdi, Oblivion's Yelp

“The room for a new dawn has been made my friend and let us live it together. All of you with me and Bushra, that angel. You’d love her. I swear you will. And you will find us out of our minds, laughing and laughing hysterically in some corner at the biggest comedic performance that exists―life.”
― Shoaib Rashdi, Asylum of Lovers

“Would you like to hear my last wish, Munazah? Come on and haunt me in oblivion too! Follow me inside the abyss of every chasm, accompany me in the stillness of every imaginable meadow, and fuse yourself with the deepest sense of identity that I possess. Let all of it be ours! Only ours! Let the rest burn away into sorry ashes. Let the boundaries of form between us cease. I am you, Munazah, and you are me.”
― Shoaib Rashdi, Asylum of Lovers

“Tell her that if a demon really came to me, as Nietzsche once imagined, and told me that I would have to live this existence over and over again without any change at all, I would embrace him and demand another cycle. I would gladly lock this choice for the circle of eternity. I am so glad I met you, Munazah, even though you weren’t. I’d let you drive me mad every time. Munazah the nymph! Munazah, my hamartia.”
― Shoaib Rashdi, Asylum of Lovers

“Who dare says my pain is hideous?
That the blows of my pangs are all insidious?
For do you not know that this aching is the cure
For the world and its poisonous lure”
― Shoaib Rashdi, Oblivion's Yelp

“Come on and haunt me in oblivion too! Follow me inside the abyss of every chasm, accompany me in the stillness of every imaginable meadow, and fuse yourself with the deepest sense of identity that I possess.”
― Shoaib Rashdi, Asylum of Lovers