Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

“A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coteries concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism, which was defined to r...”

“Time is our most precious currency. So its significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and e...”

“Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ...Ruined is a strong word, I'd say....It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.”

“If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all”

“Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he ...”

“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.”

“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.”

“We are all migrants through time.”

“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'...”

“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...”

“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.”

“Language lacks the power to describe Faith.”

“Children are excellent judges of character, you know”

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

“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 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 reinfor...”

“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.”