Aarohi

“I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.”
― Pico Iyer, The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home

“An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.”
― Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know

“Living in this city, you developed a certain relationship with violence and news of violence: you expected it, dreaded it, and then when it happened, you worked hard to look away from it, because there was nothing you could do about it - not even grieve, because you knew that it would happen again and maybe in a way that was worse than before. Grieving is possible only when you know you have come to an end, when there is nothing more to follow. This city was full of bottled-up grief.”
― Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here is Too Great

“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie