Anjum Hasan > Quotes

“The monsoons were the real thing; they dissolved things to the bone.”
― Anjum Hasan, The Cosmopolitans

“How can it be that this town is so full of people they're falling off the pavements and yet only in dreams am I in someone's arms?”
― Anjum Hasan, Difficult Pleasures

“A month passed in silence and then came an email asking if Qayennat would care to further amend, fortify or prune various sections of her proposal; Like all communication for them so far, this was well written and polite but abhorrent in its covert attempt to stamp out anything like love, to turn passion into hot air. She wanted to tell them as much, inviting them to take their stuffy foundation and stuff it up their backside”
― Anjum Hasan , THE COSMOPOLITANS

“I wonder if the practice of indolence and the foregoing of expectation isn’t also a freelance art—a forgotten one in this whirring age of profit-driven action, no matter if that hoped-for profit is in hard cash or personality development”
― Anjum Hasan, A Day in the Life

“While Kong Bina idiosyncratically swept the floors in their small house, Sophie was cajoled, poked, threatened and shouted into waking by her mother; while Sophie brushed her teeth, Kong Bina slapped clothes onto the wet bathroom floor with good-natured viciousness; as Sophie sat on a mora in the kitchen, eating her regulation one and a half parathas, spray and spittle flew from Kong Bina at the sink as she vigorously scrubbed used dinner plates. She would report, as she maniacally washed, on Firdaus, the woman who was still unmarried and lived with her wretched grandfather.”
― Anjum Hasan, Lunatic in My Head