Mohammed Sethi

“Her pores were like those of an orange, its skin filled with juice, which, if you applied the slightest pressure, would squirt up into your eyes. She was that fresh.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto, Bombay Stories

“I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto

“And Hir replied to her father, ‘As wine-bibbers cannot desert the bottle, as opium-eaters cannot live without opium, so I cannot live without Ranjha. As the stain of mango juice cannot be washed awaj from clothes, so the stain of love cannot be erased when once the heart has fallen a victim. Love is like
baldness. You cannot get rid of it even in twelve years.”
― Waris Shah, The Adventures of Hir and Ranjha

“Saintliness is also a temptation.”
― Jean Anouilh, Becket