A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.
Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can’t.
You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don’t you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone when we are with the myths.
As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
Nothing is an accident: it’s always someone’s fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.
Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It’s like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.
