“Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on the lid. They were like the stars beckoning her towards a place where all would be simple .… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
“But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
Some want to be owned, and some want to be saved. Only some want to exist in the glow of contentment — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
“Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on the lid.… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
“I really love this city. It’s so very beautiful. It’s so multidimensional.People say it has a darkness and a decadence, which it tries to hide; they say it’s full of the pretentious and opulent trying to strangle the dark reality. But that’s true for most of the other great cities too. . . . There is a soul here .… — Umair Naeem Copy Share
“People live to love; but then they realize that love is nothing. Love is just desire and longing; the culmination of a moment where… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
“Time is immaterial. It is immortal. Time never chose people to define their lives with it. That was humanity’s choice. That was when man… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
What you see when you find yourself is what will help you¦or destroy you. — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
“It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would never be easy to find… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
“This was the Karachi now – barbed wires protecting consulates, the pretentious covering themselves with faces of those who were hiding behind those barbed… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
“But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
“Love, after all, was nothing but a glimmer of hope for the miserable – those with a lot of time and little ambition.” — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
