How do you eat your roots?

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.

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

The world won’t get more or less terrible if we’re indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate,’ Kim said. ‘Though it’s possible it will seem slightly less terrible if there are marshmallows in the hot chocolate.

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

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.