Hina

“But what, after all, can a baby do except swallow all of it and hope to make sense of it later?”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“Our names contain our fates; living as we do in a place where names have not acquired the meaninglessness of the West, and are still more than mere sounds, we are also the victims of our titles.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“When you have city eyes you cannot see the invisible people, the men with elephantiasis of the balls and the beggars in boxcars don’t impinge on you, and the concrete sections of future drainpipes don’t look like dormitories.”
― Salman Rushdie

“I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children