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“انسان کتنا ہی سخت جان کیوں نہ ہو گناہ کو گناہ سمجھ کر نہیں کرنا چاہتا۔”

Book:Bahisht / بہشت

Source: Bahisht / بہشت

“I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until now, I'd just been going farther and farther away, my body a lifeboat pushing into the ocean.”

Fiction Novel Mothers And Daughters

Book:Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

Source: Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

“She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those stairs as soon as I could hold a broom. Now I climbed them feeling as if my life was ending. In the living room, Safia was watching cartoons and rocking back and forth on the sofa with her thumb in her mouth. Safia still hadn't spoken a word. For this, my mother saw her as a dream. She showered affection on Safia in a way she'd never done with me. My mother told me I'd been difficult. I'd cried and cried as a baby and never been happy. I'd never been her favorite, even when it was just me.”

Fiction Novel Mothers And Daughters

Book:Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

Source: Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

“I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me.”

Mothers Pakistan Pakistani

Book:Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

Source: Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion