“She wants a surprise so big and so heavy it could flatten her in the middle of the road. She want a tied-to-a-rocket-and-launched-into-space kind of surprise.” — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
“She tries to maintain a nondescript exterior; she learns the sideways glance instead of looking at people directly. She speaks in practised, precise sentences so that she is not misunderstood. She chooses her words carefully, and if someone addresses her in Punjabi, she answers in Urdu, because an exchange in her mother tongue might be considered a promise of intimacy.… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share
The generals who had called Zia a mullah behind his back felt ashamed at having underestimated him: not only was he a mullah, he… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
“She wants a surprise so big and so heavy it could flatten her in the middle of the road. She want a tied-to-a-rocket-and-launched-into-space kind… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
“Men constantly feel hungry and women constantly feel sad. That's what marriage does to them. ~Teddy Butt, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti” — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
“So what is it really like? What happens when people die?" Noor asks Alice Bhatti, who after finishing her shift has changed into a… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
“Alice Bhatti walks the walk of someone who thinks they can overcome their fear by taking measured steps.” — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
“Now she has lived long enough to know that cutting up women is a sport older than cricket but just as popular and equally… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
“He is an innocent in the way that lonesome canaries are innocent, flitting from one branch to another, the tender flutter of their wings… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about. — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
“He lives in a world where where people want their share of pain measured, labelled, packaged,with its ingredients identified in plain language. They want… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
