Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1973
Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education..
How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than school….
The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms.
Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same..
Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree..
We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay ….
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?.
If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you..
There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is..
So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do..
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 ….
Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gestu….
This world is out of date.
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses.
How do you eat your roots?.
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; ….
Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi now / Oh, oh you’re in Karachi now. / Night is falling and….
That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history be….
The world won’t get more or less terrible if we’re indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate,’ Kim said. ‘Though it’s possible it will seem sligh….
Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi..
How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know, I will never die of a br….