Ahmed

“Shaking her head, Daisy asked me, “Why do you act as if you’re so dumb?” And I admit that I was completely dumbfounded by this question. “It is not,” she continued, “as if you don’t know what is right and what is wrong, but instead you simply choose what you know is wrong out of habit. You go on asking infinite questions like a fool when the simple answer in life is to just do what you know is right. I’m sick of seeing you like this. Stand up for yourself. If you want to become a good person, then it is up to you to make yourself into the person you want to be. You’re not a feeble mouse having to run the course that life sets before you, but you are a mighty warrior able to choose if you want to turn right or turn left. But you will certainly suffer for your choices, so by God start making the right ones.”
― Sreejit Poole, Of Mind Or Matter

“As though I had been going steadily downhill, imagining that I was going uphill. So it was in fact. In public opinion I was going uphill, and steadily as I got up it, life was ebbing away from me....And now the work's done, there's only death.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

“It’s all about understanding. One seeks to understand the world and the other to understand ourselves. But more than that, one seeks to control the world and the other its people.”
― Sreejit Poole, Of Mind Or Matter

“I repeat, in case you missed it, that there is no greater teacher in this world than misery. It gives you character and respectability if you take from it all that it has to offer. A real friend would point out all your faults, but how many true friends do we have in this world? One if we’re lucky. But misery is a friend that we can always count on. It teaches self-control and helps us to distinguish between right, wrong and necessary. It helps us to contemplate the meaning of life, and if we are unable to find that meaning, it helps us to deal with it. The best advice that I could give you, Ballard, is to not be afraid to befriend misery, because it will haunt and torment you until you do.”
― Sreejit Poole, Of Mind Or Matter