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1 " And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me?As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has. "
― Mohsin Hamid , Moth Smoke
2 " Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless. "
3 " There's a reason prophets perform miracles: language lacks the power to describe faith. And you have to land on faith before you can even begin to hike around to its flip side, betrayal. "
4 " We are all migrants through time. "
― Mohsin Hamid , Exit West
5 " I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend. "
6 " Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can. "
7 " The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart. Without borders nations appeared to be becoming somewhat illusory, and people were questioning what role they had to play. "
8 " She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past. "
9 " Language lacks the power to describe Faith. "
10 " Children are excellent judges of character, you know "
11 " When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. "
12 " When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain "
13 " The end of the world can be cozy at times. "
14 " Human beings don’t necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.It’s a mistake to ask literature to reinforce such structures. Literature tends to crack them. Literature is where we free ourselves. "
― Mohsin Hamid
15 " I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. "
16 " What happens is my mind starts to go in circles, thinking and thinking, and then I can't sleep. And once a couple of days go by, if you haven't slept, you start to get sick. You can't eat. You start to cry. It just feeds on itself. "
― Mohsin Hamid , The Reluctant Fundamentalist
17 " And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born. "
18 " Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm. "
19 " ...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth. "
20 " I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost. "
