347 Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

Ozi made me feel so known. He made love to my insides, filling desperate gaps and calming unbearably sensitive places.

...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.

You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.

It's easy to be an idealist when you drive a Pajero.

We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.

She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help.

Such journeys have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be.

Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can.