Ismail Karim

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“You must never forget it if that's an important memory to you. Especially when a person dies, he can only live in the memories of others.”
― Gosho Aoyama, 名探偵コナン 37 [Meitantei Conan 37]

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story