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The Foe Within

Book by P. Sheelwant · 21 quotes · Emotions, Internal Conflict, Family Drama

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“… When I needed their support the most, one first threw me out … and, then, they all ditched me and departed as if in vengeance, yoking me up to nursing a child …”

Emotion Internal Dialogue

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“… Had Mom not given in to Dad’s tantrum … just to keep peace in home, I wouldn’t have come to the pass I am in. Even then, Mom couldn’t keep peace, and the brute threw me out!”

Emotion Family Drama

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“… Ganesh thought of Raman’s fragile frame and didn’t do what he could have done to him, and Dad … well … had I been Ganesh and he Raman, he would have shredded and thrown me to street dogs … I was his daughter and Raman, Ganesh’s none.”

Emotion Internal Conflict

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“… Did you, too … think me a dog turd as Dad did? If not, why didn’t you fight, gouge his eyes out when he regretted you conceiving me? You know Mom; I felt like I was an illegitimate child dumped in a waste bin by her incestuous mother.”

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“… I had promised myself to go and ask for his forgiveness one day, but now that he is no more, I have lost that chance of amendment, too.”

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“… Could I have missed them more? What a fool I had been while they walked and talked and lived …”

Emotions Helplessness

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“… Had Dad not thrown me out … for pursuing what I liked, and more so, for not pursuing what he liked, I could have probably said … . But as of now, I can’t. I know my conscience wouldn’t ever let me rest in peace, if I did.”

Emotions Family Drama

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“… He was shouting all along, ‘so people want to make me regret’, and then came his full-throated war cry as if a triumphant cannibal was dragging his vanquished, and wriggling, enemy to cook for a communal feast…”

Emotions Family Drama

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“… Mom’s murmur, ‘Oh Mohan, you fool, couldn’t you help not wrecking the delicate balance I tried to nurture’ rings in my ears ever fresh…”

Emotions Family Drama

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“… Had I been less stunned, I would have gone to Mom, hugged and consoled her, but I didn’t dare; I couldn’t; not knowing who was devastated more; me or Mom.”

Emotions Family Drama

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“… Why hadn’t I, too, been on board AI 666? We could all have been having bonhomie as dead as when alive…”

Emotions Internal Conflict

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“… Though I never agreed with him fully, a part of me wanted to listen to his words as if they contained kernel of truth and, yet another part, wanted to banish the echo of his words from my head …”

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“… I loved you, didn’t I, Dad? I could’ve come on one of these days to apologize to you for all my acts that had hurt you, only if you were there.”

Emotions Internal Conflict

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“… Isn’t my literary career like that bird mingling in the nothingness, braying its heartfelt rhythm all along, all alone?”

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“… Poor little darling … Only if I had known some way to tell you Abdul’s opinion of you, without hurting you, I would have told you. It may break your heart but stop you from breaking up, that is.”

Emotions Helplessness

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“… If I had the power to raise at least one from the dead, I would raise Iqbal; he was so indispensable to me …”

Emotions Internal Dialogue

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“… The ferocious feeling of guilt within me, possesses me, time and again, shoving me to let them know. Nevertheless, how can I? Facts so explosive … every time I decide to tell, my courage fails me.”

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“… I could never get those antique furniture pieces back; ever. The loss was bearable, had Raghu not got an impression that I had lied to him …”

Emotions Disheartening

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“… Why didn’t you ever tell me, Dad? I never loved you less than I did when you were so confident about the success of my tennis career; never.”

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“… If I were ever to get power to retrieve photographs that I have burnt … I would crave to retrieve that ‘coach Mom’s’ photograph, the most. Feeling of guilty conscience of the nonsensical burning of that photograph, Mom being no more, would die when I die…”

Emotions Helplessness

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“… You can never kill that ‘Helena’ because ‘she’ is ‘you’. She is as much a part of ‘you’ as your eyes, your ears, your arms, and your legs are. …”

Emotions Psychic

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