33 Quotes by Zia Haider Rahman

"We’re not put on this earth to fuck around. We have to make something of our lives."

"Everyone, he continued, wants his life to stand for something other than what it would, which is about eighty years – in the West, at any rate – eighty years of working, eating, sleeping, shitting, breeding, and dying. Lives of buttoning and unbuttoning – who said that?"

"An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library."

"Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean."

"It’s always nice to learn a thing or two from a novel, don’t you think?"

"Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know."

"I wasn’t as untrusting. I had faith in the goodness of people, the perfection of love.What happened?Everything ends. And it’s how they end that leaves the lasting effect."

"It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool’s errand."

"Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience."

"We are a dangerous breed, you and I. We are lock pickers. We are dangerous to others and ourselves. It is always a great risk to open a door if you don’t know what’s behind it."