Jasd1 Quotes

“Some silences are more meaningful than thousands of long sentences.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“I was travelling through a tunnel of light. The more I travelled, the lighter I felt. I was filled with a kind of ecstasy that I had never known before. I was moving closer and closer to the source of this beautiful light. All I wanted was to merge with that light. But suddenly I fell, like a flower falling off its stem, and returned to my body.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“It's best to be alone when you are sad. I wanted to be myself and feel my strength slowly seeping back into me.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“You know people, they will always find something or the other to talk about. Don't take it seriously. But remember that you are going through some of the most decisive moments of your life. You are bearing a burden that is much heavier than a woman as young as you should be bearing. But if you get through these days, you win. Do what feels infinitely right. There will be thousand naysayers. Don't be tempted. Be steadfast...”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“All those other gestures of sympathy seemed a little melodramatic to me. My loss was mine and only mine. For the others, it was just a matter of words.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“Honest is my policy. That's in fact my problem.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“You know how it is when you arrive in a new place and feel like you don't belong there? That hesitation to recon with a new geography. That knowledge that this place is not mine, these ways of talking are not mine, these silences are not mine, this etiquette is not mine.So many new things to absorb. And the place also takes a little time to accept the new person. Often you have to meet the place on its own terms. Sometimes you have to work hard to earn your little corner in it. Till that place become yours, till you find your own equilibrium, there will be a gap between you and the place.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days