Saima Mukhtar

“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Would that we all knew the cracked terrain of each other’s broken hearts. Perhaps then, we would not be so cruel to those who walk this lonely world with us.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“We never had much, but whatever we did have was made with love, which I now know transforms simple fare into a feast.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“She says the word friend like it’s a secret she wishes she knew.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes