Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.

I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.

Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.