Lubaina Rasheed

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things