Mohsin Hamid Quotes

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• She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself. Brought
• You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care. Care
• When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. Becomes
• In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions.… American
• It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine… All
• As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of… Acted
• The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you… Almost See
• If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There… Able
• Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change. Always Change
• I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take. Core
• I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age. Age
• You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me.… Believe
• And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes. Arrive
• I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And… Behind
• I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because… Alone
• And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current… Allow
• Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will,… Addiction
• We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is… All
• It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the… Animal
• It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million… Become One

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