Lubaina Rasheed

“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

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

“Molière’s words came to him, strangely comforting:Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children