Memoona Afzal

“You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.”
― Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

“As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'.

'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'.

'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke