Fatima Jafri
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“Yes, I like that—loyalty, I mean. It’s out of fashion nowadays. She’s an odd character, that girl—proud, reserved, stubborn, and terribly warm-hearted underneath, I fancy.”
― Death on the Nile
― Death on the Nile
“But unless our surroundings are well maintained, we cannot be beautiful inside.”
― Dozakhnama
― Dozakhnama
“We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late.”
― Be Careful What You Wish For
― Be Careful What You Wish For
“I wrote about my love, my ishq, on bloodstained paper day after day, Manto bhai, my hand became numb, but still I wrote. I knew my ghazals would provide comfort to many people one day.”
― Dozakhnama
― Dozakhnama
“And by then I had understood that any ghazal that could not pierce your heart completely and instantly, like an arrow, had no value as a work of art.”
― Dozakhnama
― Dozakhnama
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