Aslam Mir

“The characters in my novels are my unrealized possibilities, That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own ' I' ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become." ( Milan Kundera, The Unforgettable Lightness of Being: Page, 218)”
― Milan Kundera

“سب دن اور سب زمانے ہمارے اندر ہیں مگر ہم اپنی تنگ ظرفی سے انھیں مار کر ماضی بنا دیتے ہیں اور اپنے اندر دفن کر دیتے ہیں۔ ہمارا اندر ؟ ایک بڑا مدفن ہے جس میں جانے کتنے آج' کل بن کر دبے پڑے ہیں۔ مجھ پر سنک سوار ہے کہ کہانی کا منتر پھونک کر سوئے ہوئے کلوں کو جگاؤ اور اپنے اس ننھے سے جاگتے آج میں سمولو! مگر پھر وہی بات کہ میں نہ ہاتھی ہوں کہ مجھے اپنے سارے کل یاد ہوں نہ مہاتما بدھ ہوں کہ سارے گزرے کلوں کو سمیٹ کر ایک جگمگا تا آج بنالوں، مگر چلو حسرت ہی سہی۔ اس حسرت کا حق تو مجھ سے مت چھینو۔" ( انتظار حسین، کچھوے، صفحہ: 176)”
― Intizar Husain, Kachway / کچھوے

“Something else raised him above the others as well: he had an open book on his table. No one had ever opened a book in that restaurant before. In Tereza's eyes, books were the weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the books she took out of the municipal library, and above all, the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others."( The Unforgettable lightness of Being, Milan Kundera, page 47)”
― Milan Kundera

“And when your soul, the flame, the spark, meets with the divine fuel that is so pure and so strong, it results in immense enlightenment: the enlightenment of God. Light upon light, Noorun Alaa Noor.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories