Hadia

“Why sociology?’ he said. He shouldn’t have opened the wine – it would only make Terry angrier. There was never anything to be gained from pettiness.
‘I wanted to understand why the world is so unfair.’
‘Shouldn’t your God give you those answers?’ he said, surprised by the slight teasing of his own tone.
‘Our God did, in a roundabout way.’
‘How’s that?’ he said. She was pretty when her face was at rest, wiped clean of the encroachment of anxiety.
‘For starters, He created Marx.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire