“Then you won’t leave me, Sonia?”
“No, no, never, nowhere!” cried Sonia. “I will follow you, I will follow you everywhere. Oh, my God! Oh, how miserable I am! Why, why didn’t I know you before! Why didn’t you come before?”
I once left Istanbul in the purse of a preacher from Edirne who
was going to Manisa. On the way, we happened to be attacked by thieves. One of them shouted, “Your money or your life!” Panicking, the miserable preacher hid us in his asshole. This spot, which he assumed was the safest, smelled worse than the mouth of the garlic lover and was much less comfortable. But the situation quickly grew worse when instead of “Your money or your life!” the thieves began to shout “Your honor or your life!” Lining up, they took him by turns. I don’t dare describe the agony we suffered in that cramped hole. It’s for this reason that I dislike leaving Istanbul.
"Are you tired?" he asked.
"Yes, and chilled, and miserable, I feel as if I had been wound up to a certain pitch-too tight-and something inside of me had snapped." She rested her head against the table upon her bare arm.
"You want to rest," he said, "and to be quiet. I'll go, I'll leave you and let you rest."
"Yes," she replied.
Mr. Heathcliff you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery. You are miserable, are you not? Lonely, like the devil, and envious like hìm?
Nobody loves you-nobody will cry for you when you die!
I wouldn't be you!'
Well, the more preoccupied we are with what is out of our control (such as things we can’t have), the more miserable and disempowered we become. But our values connect us with what is in our control: the ability to act like the sort of person we want to be.