It's Hard to Please Vandanya Quotes

“Repetition converts an action into a habit.
Memories, that don't hurt, especially good ones, make you devoted to this habit.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Excuses are made by the power of weakness. Their purpose is merely a wish you have; you wish they would demolish your guilt and regret.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“To be dignified and respected,
one must not interfere in trivial matters,
one must not intrude into private issues!”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Some natural catastrophes are inevitable while others act as reminders of how we abuse nature daily. We are part of nature, and we feel relaxed with this deep harmony.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Those people who are supposed to be the closest to you are not always that close.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“It's about cultures; they widen the dimensions of the present, they vanquish the walls of the narrow perception. They make you look forward to experiencing a new life that is full of unusual things.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Sorrow is the way that shows the validity of humanity…”
― Noha alaa el-din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“For the observant, cultures matter!
For the watcher, they are only humans!”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“That's the value you add and it's, incidentally, the same value you get.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“The real hero expects no repayment; a hero doesn't mention his achievements, nor does he keep reminding people of the favours he did for them. The hero never surrenders.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“But the visible deludes us when, in fact, the invisible controls the visible itself.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Our fights, quarrels, and debates blinded me that I forgot how much she means to me. She means the world, the whole world with its varieties and diversities.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Don't create the illusion!
You create it so carefully with your chosen material to console yourself with it afterwards.
Remember how you used to be, you were all right, you were perfectly sound, you don't need anyone to survive.
Where is your will? Where is that bright future you promised to fulfill?”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Among all the proposals of friendship I got, out of all the feelings that I could have experienced, (In despair) Melancholy became my friend.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“What do you want to hear? I am sure you want to hear some praises, the one who does mischievous deeds loves to get praised by the most unpleasant negative comments to nourish one's ego.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Tears are supposed to relieve the pain, but sometimes, they do worsen the pain, particularly the physical pain, the pain of the hurt pride, and the psychological pain that is accompanied by the continual waves of tears.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“So you admit that you have changed!!
I am fond of husbands who possess genuine love for their wives, and it doesn't change but to be sweeter, fiercer in, an unharmful, passionate way, and stronger with pure affection.
Find me one who never changes but for much better versions of himself for a lifetime.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Dimitri:
I promise you forever!

Vandanya:
Do stop making promises you can't keep!
I don't ask for forever, that word started to terrify me recently.
The sea has one shore for the realist; he would assume it has no end, geographical names only define it.
Seas and oceans! They are, in fact, connected together that the point you see and start with is the ending point as well.
And it means it's now or never, just like the claimed ocean of time,
they call it forever.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Fortunately, there is no perfect sadness and there is no perfect happiness, they do have some impurities.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“You want to see my eagerness flooding my eyes,
(Moved) you wanted me to cry my heart out, and then, by the power of your presence again in my life, every granule of pain turns miraculously into a sparkling diamond of love.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Now my hope is right before my eyes and I am not to let it evaporate.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“It's wonderful to be ambitious after all of that success.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“The wind of change is clashing with the wind of the past.. The past..”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“If the decision of what you did was yours, you absolutely have no valid excuse!”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Careers are source of power!”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“One of the main privileges of being a writer is that you go around and about. Then, you translate those scenes you capture in mind into words powered by your spicy imagination. Translators translate what's already been translated.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“A new language is a gate to a new life, a new style, a new rhythm, a new feeling, and a new spirit.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“I am using the past tense because I have no idea about the present as I couldn't predict the future at that time in the past.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“There was no sugar! That was better for our health; no need to taste such a boring thing. Sugar is one of these decorative ingredients; those ingredients that deceive you by changing the bitterness of reality into some dazzling bites of sweetness.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Life! It always has something puzzling to say and something new to show. It happens when it's least expected, such a turn, such a scene!”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase