18 quotes found
“This world is out of date”
“How do you eat your roots?”
“I still hear the world spinning.”
“All around us, Karachi kept moving”
“If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.”
“You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.”
“Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that some...”
“We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So theres a beautiful superficiality to our relationship which sometimes gets covered up by all the genuine aff...”
“They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect y...”
“If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.”
“I'll fall.''You wont fall.''I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.'As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plumme...”
“Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.”
“I didnt tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defianc...”
“Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans”
“Bijli fails in the dead of night / Wont help to call I need a light / Youre in Karachi now / Oh, oh youre in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / Youre...”
“This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism. ”
“Theres a ghost of a dream that you dont even try to shake free off because youre too in love with the way she haunts you.”
“For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?”
