“ What appears strange and complex becomes stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That's the true nature of the world. Bilal Tanweer
“ We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city. Bilal Tanweer
“ You see, my son, a city is all about how you look at it...We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must… Bilal Tanweer
“ My dear, you are not one person. You have many people in you, and each one can ask only some kinds of questions. Bilal Tanweer
“ For the first time I am confronted with the fact that places and people are like things: both made of memories and meaningful to us in the same way: we construct ourselves in our conversations with th… Bilal Tanweer
“ It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would never be easy to findsolitude . . . to find herself. Not in this city, where appearances were everything;… Umair Naeem
“ Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping a… Kamila Shamsie
“ Living in this city, you developed a certain relationship with violence and news of violence: you expected it, dreaded it, and then when it happened, you worked hard to look away from it, because ther… Bilal Tanweer
“ Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi now / Oh, oh you’re in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You… Kamila Shamsie
“ If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower. Kamila Shamsie
“ Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone… Kamila Shamsie
