midnightreads

“Everything is better told as a story, and mine is still unfolding.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Hana Khan Carries On

“I had filled my heart and hands with everyone else’s burdens, had accepted their worries as if they had been my own, assuming they were all doing the same for me—but they weren’t.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Hana Khan Carries On

“Tell me, Hana, how strong can blood ties remain when they stretch across an ocean?”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Hana Khan Carries On

“I do know that, for all the benefits of being the daughter of immigrants, the one drawback is I’ve had to establish my own sense of place. All my extended family live elsewhere, on a different continent, and we don’t visit often enough to form real ties. There’s a lot of freedom in being a pioneer of your family’s history in a new place, of course. But there’s a lot of loneliness too. I’ve had to find my own family, to make the sort of friendships that are family. Yet lack of history means my roots here are shallow, my stories only a few years old.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Hana Khan Carries On