“Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain, Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikley In this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun, They go down on one side to come up on the other.” IndiaIslamMuhammadUrdu PoetryPakistaniauthorKhushwant SinghAllama IqbalSub ContinentMomin Author:Allama Iqbal
“Lahore is a delicious city. A mottled mess of vanishing history and new regimes. Lahore becomes ominous when you are in Morgantown. Lahore becomes a quiet mirage, an odd spectacle hung in time that only moves how you want it to move. It only moves when you want it to move. It does not speak to you or wail for you, yet you write only about Lahore. You preserve it in your poetry. You suppress it in a verse. You capture it in the refrain of a poem: its beating heart, its howls and cries, its chuckle. Yes, Lahore chuckles. The colonial drawing room in your mother’s house. The pale light that slithered through the bedroom curtains. The moth your father captured in his palm when you were a child. And then he kissed the brown wings to show you that the moth was a friend. The goodness of the gardener who gave you jasmine flowers every evening. The ceramic bowl with painted tulips where you placed the flowers. The horrid monsoon rains that killed the houseboy. How long can a stanza sustain the scuffling of a city?” LossLove QuotesGrief And HealingCities Spaces PlacesPakistaniauthor Book:What Remains After a Fire: Stories Source: What Remains After a Fire: Stories
“In the nights though, I couldn't help but weave the golden cloth of my dreams. Each stitch from heart to thought, and thought to heart, was painful to bear, even if it was joyous at times. Because each thread was fraught with the fears of being broken midway, lost and never found again. Nida” South Asian LiteratureDiverse ReadsPakistaniauthorPakistani Fiction In EnglishPost Colonial Literature Book:This House of Clay and Water Source: This House of Clay and Water
“Don’t you ever cry again, Miss Zarish,” he said in a strict but mild tone. “I would rather die than see tears in your eyes.” LoveRomanceFictionChicklitLovestoryUndyingaffinityAhmarzarishContemporaryromancePakistaniauthorRomancefictionPakistaniwriter Book:Undying Affinity Source: Undying Affinity