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Thinner Than Skin QUOTES

Thinner Than Skin QUOTES

1 " Never was a wind between teeth so exasperated. "

― Uzma Aslam Khan , Thinner Than Skin

2 " I feared her love for me was like a Pakistani glacier. It was difficult to say if it was growing or retreating. "

― Uzma Aslam Khan , Thinner Than Skin

3 " It was here the land spoke to him most, in a region that lay high in the north of what was now Kazakhstan, though to the nomads with whom he was to spend the next three summers, all of Central Asia was one land, divided not into states but into mountain and steppe, desert and oasis. The steppe nomads made him feel he was looking back in time--his time. It was the strangest sensation, the first day he was invited to break bread with them. It was as though a mountain inside him were melting, leaving him naked and cleansed, entirely in his own skin, the skin he used to inhabit in the valley of his youth...before he had to don a thousand skins. In the steppe, he was undisguised, unwary, unwanting. "

― Uzma Aslam Khan , Thinner Than Skin

4 " Wasn't sunrise meant to be the hour of hope? 'The season of creation' some poet or other had once called it. Fucking poet. "

― Uzma Aslam Khan , Thinner Than Skin