347 Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

...in any case over sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

People don't believe in consequences anymore.

[O]ver sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

I like its eyes: two black dots, nonreflective light-trappers. Utterly determined eyes, doubt-free, unselfconscious. Frightening eyes if they happen to be looking at you and you’re small enough to be dinner. The same eyes a man probably sees on an alligator before it drags him down and shakes the air out of his lungs and leaves him to rot a little in the murk, to be tenderized properly before he becomes a meal.

(A revolver is) just a tool, really, like stapler. A stapler that punch through a person. Pin them. Drive blunt metal through flesh and bone.

La maggior parte della gente non se ne rende conto, ragazzo, - disse allacciandosi la cintura con un cenno del capo in direzione del buio edificio alle nostre spalle. - Così cerca di resistere al cambiamento. Ma il potere deriva dal diventare cambiamento".

La confessione che chiama in causa l'ascoltatore è, come diciamo nel cricket, un demonio di palla da giocare. Se la rifiuti offendi chi si confessa, se l'accetti ammetti la tua colpa.

Although it is traditionally associated with the end of summer and the impending arrival of autumn, September has always seemed to me a month of beginnings, a spring of sorts—possibly because it marks the commencement of the academic year.

...abandoning the city to the predations of warriors on both sides who seemed content to flatten it in order to possess it.