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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 30b0a17 | one is to look out at the universe and see yourself, the other is to look within yourself and see the universe. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ed010e1 | it's possible to open our eyes, to see, to recognize our solitude--and at the same time to not be entirely alone. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| a05f237 | Rimsha Masih fiasco--in which they had championed the execution of a fourteen-year-old mentally disabled Christian girl for the crime of blasphemy, only to be roundly rebuffed by a rare confluence of sane elements within Pakistan's legal system, media, civil society, and clergy, who collectively revealed that she had been framed by a property-coveting local mullah--they | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| bf8ce4d | How odd it would be to call Homer's Iliad or Rumi's Masnavi "the Great Eastern Mediterranean Poem." | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| d5130ae | Painted images of F-16s given by America were appearing on the backs of buses under the words "God is great." | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 6dc7007 | Armed college students were telling women to cover their heads. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| d020eb1 | courage is demanded not to attack when afraid, | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| d30be15 | In America, the murky, unknown places of the world are blank screens: | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| e3322d4 | stories of evil can be projected on them with as little difficulty as stories of good. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 2a2ccb0 | In Pakistan, my friends and family are frightened, as they should be when the | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| f465ded | The world will not fail if Pakistan fails, but the world will be healthier if Pakistan is healthy. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 38a8d6a | America is our enemy; America should give us more aid. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 557f359 | ambitious cleric position: "Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says." | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 2807ae8 | flying robots from an alien power regularly strike down from the skies and kill Pakistani citizens. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| b6da803 | I'm more unsettled than nervous. It's like I'm an oyster. I've had this sharp speck inside me for a long time, and I've been trying to make it more comfortable, so slowly I've turned it into a pearl. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 77a999b | Saeed went with his father to pray on the first Friday after the curfew's commencement, and Saeed prayer for peace and Saeed's father prayed for Saeed and the preacher in his sermon urged all the congregants to pry for the righteous to emerge victorious in the war but carefully refrained from specifying on which side of the conflict he thought the righteous to be. | prayer religion | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 835ebe7 | Saeed went with his father to pray on the first Friday after the curfew's commencement, and Saeed prayed for peace and Saeed's father prayed for Saeed and the preacher in his sermon urged all the congregants to pry for the righteous to emerge victorious in the war but carefully refrained from specifying on which side of the conflict he thought the righteous to be. | prayer religion | Mohsin Hamid | |
| f40fda9 | I just gritted my teeth, took out a needle, and worked him out of my heart like a splinter. | healing moving-on-and-letting-go | Mohsin Hamid | |
| fac936f | Cooking for him is a craft of spice and oil. His food burns the tongue and clogs the arteries. When he looks around him here, he does not see prickly leaves and hairy little berries for an effervescent salad, tan stalks of wheat for a heavenly balloon of sone-ground, stove-top-baked flatbread. He sees instead units of backbreaking toil. He sees hours and days and weeks and years. He sees the labor by which a farmer exchanges his allocation .. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 2bc576d | Avevano cominciato, entrambi, a essere penetrati, ma non si erano ancora dati un bacio. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 62315e2 | depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 00f4bc9 | depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself... | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 86cf631 | Ogni volta che si spostano, due partner, se la loro attenzione e ancora rivolta l'uno verso l'altra, cominciano a vedersi in modo diverso, perche le personalita non hanno un unico immutabile colore, come il bianco o il blu, ma sono come schermi illuminati, e le sfumature che proiettiamo dipendono da cio che ci circonda. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| dc893d6 | e quando usciva l'anziana signora aveva la sensazione di essere emigrata anche lei, che tutti emigriamo anche se restiamo nella stessa casa per tutta la vita, perche non possiamo evitarlo. Siamo tutti migranti attraverso il tempo. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| e0570a8 | what is natural in one place can seem unnatural in another, and some concepts travel rather poorly, if at all. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 141a862 | Now, though, in Marin, Saeed prayed even more, several times a day, and 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 touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love .. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| b145e8e | I found it ironic; children and the elderly were meant to be sent away from impending battles, but in our case it was the fittest and brightest who were leaving, those who in the past would have been most expected to remain. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| f87bab4 | but I would suggest that it is instead our solitude that most disturb us, the fact that we are all but alone despite being in the heart of a city. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| d0ab922 | Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help. Textbooks, those whores, as particularly explicit in acknowledging this, and it is with a textbook that you, at this moment, after several years in the city, are walking down the street. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 7bb5bb0 | even if he understood, at some level, that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 4620230 | The alliance between the US and Pakistan is thus predominantly between the US and the Pakistani military. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 83afe32 | and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 0672bb7 | Saeed and Nadia knew what the buildup to conflict felt like, and so the feeling that hung over London in those days was not new to them, and they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not mostly, but instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the fou.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ce570a1 | There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things. | closeness deah love temporariness time value | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 050a997 | They knew there was a possibility the agent had sold them out to the militants, and so they knew there was a possibility this was the final afternoon of their lives. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 6fa8d5e | The city waits for thunder's echo, for a wall of heat that burns Lahore with the energy of a thousand summers, a million partitions, a billion atomic souls split in half. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| aa16ae8 | He was aware that alone a person is almost nothing. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 256642a | From a distance she might be mistaken for a very young woman, while the maid seemed to have aged doubly, perhaps for them both, as if her occupation had been to age, to exchange the magic of months for bank notes and food. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 46105f2 | maintaining a strict neutrality between the two potential combatants, a position that favoured, of course, the larger and [...] more belligerent of them. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 1e38103 | Power comes from becoming change | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| e81bef2 | She listened to me speak with a series of smiles, as though she were sipping at my descriptions and finding them to her taste | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| dc30d4f | the streets] enforce the ancient hierarchy that comes to us from the countryside: the superiority of the mounted man over the man on foot. But here [...] it is the man with four wheels who is forced to dismount and become part of the crowd | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ea82436 | It's more of a novella than a novel. It leaves space for your thoughts to echo. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| b898f2f | The air is so dry, so clear, and there's so few people, almost no lights. And you can lie on your back and look up and see the Milky Way. All the stars like a splash of milk in the sky. And you see them slowly move. Because the Earth is moving. And you feel like you're lying on a giant spinning ball in space. | existence existentialism life space stargazing stars the-milky-way the-world wonder | Mohsin Hamid |