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“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
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When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
―
“She would not have understood, then, that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in the Stationery Shop, always. She and Bahman were one, and she and Walter were united. Kyle was her soul and Marigold would never die.”
― The Stationery Shop
― The Stationery Shop
“सामने आए मेरे, देखा मुझे, बात भी की
मुस्कुराए भी, पुरानी किसी पहचान की ख़ातिर
कल का अख़बार था, बस देख लिया, रख भी दिया
English Translation-
Met me, saw me, spoke with me
Smiled as well, for the sake of an old relationship
Yesterday's newspaper, seen and put aside”
― Selected Poems
मुस्कुराए भी, पुरानी किसी पहचान की ख़ातिर
कल का अख़बार था, बस देख लिया, रख भी दिया
English Translation-
Met me, saw me, spoke with me
Smiled as well, for the sake of an old relationship
Yesterday's newspaper, seen and put aside”
― Selected Poems
“When you face your fear, you become familiar with it and familiarity makes it lose its meaning, loosen its grip—fear ceases to be fear.”
― Half a Rupee: Stories
― Half a Rupee: Stories
“Hazaron khwahishen aesi, ke har khwahish pe dam nikle Bahut nikle mere arman, lekin phir bhi kam nikle.”
― Mirza Ghalib
― Mirza Ghalib
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