Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

“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 h...”

“Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.”

“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.”

“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'...”

“A single strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie's concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism... I recognized that i...”

“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 t...”

“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.”

“Language lacks the power to describe Faith.”

“But since the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, terrorists have killed many times that number of people in Pakistan. Tens of thousands have died here in terror and counterterror violence, slai...”

“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”

“The end of the world can be cozy at times.”

“Human beings dont necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.Its a mistake to ask literature to reinforce...”

“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.”

“Children are excellent judges of character, you know”

“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 star...”

“He prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he tou...”

“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.”

“We are all migrants through time.”

“And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.”

“Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intentadmittedly in my own best intereston challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.”