Best Karachi Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“Karachi has always been home, so why does every goodbye feel like a breakup?”

Home Breakup Goodbye Karachi Being Away From Home

Source: Filmi Kismet

“It hits you in unexpected moments, this city's romance; everywhere, air pockets of loveliness just when your lungs can't take any more congestion or pollution or stifling newspaper headlines.”

Home Pakistan Karachi

Book:Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

Source: Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

“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 against your limbs.”

Home Water Sea Belonging Homecoming Karachi

Book:Salt and Saffron

Source: Salt and Saffron

“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 them.”

Pakistan City Karachi Bilal Tanweer

Book:The Scatter Here Is Too Great

Source: The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“Ever seen a bullet-smashed windscreen? The hole at the center becomes an eye. You see less through it but you gain focus, sharpness. That's how it is -- our wounds become our eyes. Seeing outside becomes seeing inside. Listen.”

Pakistan Bullet Karachi Bilal Tanweer Windscreen

Book:The Scatter Here Is Too Great

Source: The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“What appears strange and complex becomes stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That's the true nature of the world.”

World Strange Pakistan City Karachi Bilal Tanweer

Author:Bilal Tanweer

“That was the strange problem with writing, you had discovered. Meaning never matched the words and words always evaded the thought.”

Writing Strange Pakistan Karachi Bilal Tanweer

Book:The Scatter Here Is Too Great

Source: The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“I hid myself behind Baba. It was like being in the shadow. Shadows are empty places in things. The colour of shadow is also black, which is the color of empty things. Blackboard is also black when it is empty No one can draw shadows on blackboards because shadows keep on changing. You cannot draw changing things. But it happens, you know; you draw and you look and it has changed.”

Pakistan Things Blackboard Karachi Bilal Tanweer The Scatter Here Is Too Great

Book:The Scatter Here Is Too Great

Source: The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“Things taste sweeter when you have some hunger left to linger. You feel it hunting your head for buried things; digging into the fractures of your breath warm and greedy.”

Hunger Pakistan City Karachi Bilal Tanweer

Book:The Scatter Here Is Too Great

Source: The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“a city is all about how you look at it”

Pakistan City Karachi Bilal Tanweer

Author: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.”

Pakistan City Karachi Bilal Tanweer

Book:The Scatter Here Is Too Great

Source: The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and everything that is dark. And then this terrifying thought hits you: Yes, your father wrote poetry to find a language for his wounds. Yes, you in your own way have become your father”

Poetry Father Pakistan Karachi Bilal Tanweer The Scatter Here Is Too Great

Book:The Scatter Here Is Too Great

Source: The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“Regardless of how well-settled he was in Islamabad, every time he had to move back from his house in Karachi, it was a little heartbreaking. His house, the Karachi house, was soon to be just a memory. It all felt strangely hollow.”

Memory Homeless Pakistan Long Distance Moving Away Karachi Islamabad Away From Hime Memory Of A City

Book:Filmi Kismet

Source: Filmi Kismet

“All around us, Karachi kept moving”

Life Cities Survival Moving On Motion Karachi

Book:Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

Source: Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

“If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.”

Government Friendship Humour Pakistan Karachi

Book:Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

Source: Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan