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.

That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?

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.

This world is out of date

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.

So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.

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