Ahmad

“Describe us as a sex," was her challenge.
"Sphinxes without secrets.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world. Like a spode dinner plate. Or a single cell. Or, as daisy says, like a Jane Austen novel. When player and listener together know the route so well, the pleasure is in the deviation, the unexpected turn against the grain. To see a world in a grain of sand. So it is, Perowne tries to convince himself, with clipping an aneurysm: absorbing variation on an unchanging theme.”
― Ian McEwan, Saturday

“That the reason life is so strange is that we have simply no idea what is around the next corner, and it was an obvious idea but one most of us had learned to forget.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“Possession, belonging, repetition.”
― Ian McEwan, Saturday