22 Quotes by Mehreen Ahmed

Art is heavenly which abomination cannot touch.

In wakefulness she slept. In sleep, she woke up.

It didn't stoop because it didn't know how to.

I am the promise that cannot be broken.I am the love that will never be severed.I am the dream that will not be realised.I am the desire that will burn forever.

Under a full marmalade moon, she sat with her wedded husband in a small thatched room. Through the portal of the cane latticed window, she heard the ominous crow lapse into terrible wail, as it flew through the stooping, bunched up bamboo bush.

Quick lightening crept through unpredictably in toothed lines, followed by bellows from heavens above. Nalia began to run like a petrified black gazelle.

City was crowded Oh my My so many people Getting on Almost squeezed in the boat People once too many Tahu where was she in this humdrum No address Mother you werent here with me in the city Lost I am completely Lost I am drowning The boatman was but a boy The storm boat was sinking I was sinking mother and my father Tahu I was sinking...

Bloody evening sky A lonely boat travelled on the ocean of huge waves Headed in search of new land A child was born incognito People threw up everywhere No land was visible No No Conflict of free will and pre-destination; what choices could this child exercise that he was born on a boat full of riders destined to go God knows where ...?.

The green sea tortoise swim unhindered through them; this quiet underworld has here from time immemorial.