“You just gave her an angry glance in return. It was the kind of glance that children give their parents when they know exactly the kind of total power they have over them and when the temptation to shatter them… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“True Stories are fragments. Anything longer is a lie, a fabrication” — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“You just gave her an angry glance in return. It was the kind of glance that children give their parents when they know exactly… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“Living in this city, you developed a certain relationship with violence and news of violence: you expected it, dreaded it, and then when it… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“The sea, you see, feels good for only a few days, but then it starts suffocating you. You first escape to the sea to… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
