Dur e Aziz Amna > Quotes

“All I know is that the world keeps spinning, and only at the end of each night, when my head is on your shoulder, does it stop long enough for me to comprehend.”
― Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever

“All I’m saying is, you don’t have to roam the earth so defensively. Your existence doesn’t require anyone else’s acknowledgement.”
― Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever

“Again, it’s 2011 and Americans are worried about everyone else’s safety, sated in the knowledge that their nook of the world is far safer than elsewhere, although don’t tell them why that might be. History is what happens in other places. America transcends it.”
― Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever

“What’s the point, Hamid had asked? Why move if you do not wish for places to change you? But perhaps you leave to find out what doesn’t change, the discontent and itch that are constant. You move only to discover, amidst the waiting and the hoping, and the dashing of that hope, that there is only one place the boat will dock. Wherever you go, there you are.”
― Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever

“All these prelapsarian significances came later, though, because life is lived in one direction and understood in the other.”
― Dur e Aziz Amna, American Fever