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We didn’t start reading because our parents told us to do so. We picked up books because we saw them reading every day after Maghrib prayers and before dinner. A good book used to cost Rs. 259 or more and our monthly allowance, for the longest time, was Rs. 100. We used to save for three months to buy one book and thought long and hard about which one to buy. There was a hunger to buy more and the wait was long, so long. Now that we can buy as many as we like, I am so grateful to God, so grateful. Ever grateful. But you don’t forget the yearning. I guess that’s why if I am not reading one I am staring at my shelf in wonder, or touching the spines or smelling them.

“The lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out.” — Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

First of all, Tom Hiddleston is a God. He’s just striking. He’s such a great actor I forgot, a few times, that it was him playing all the nuances of a flawed man. The play, by Harold Pinter, is certainly well-known to theatre nerds. I am so new to the game I watch every play with my mouth open. I love the lights, the shadows (they make me weep for my camera), even extras are perfect. I love how the actors can change the energy of the room which is so intimate because of the proximity and the darkness. It is almost like a confession. I loved Cox and Ashton was wonderful. The set moved at times, like a vinyl record. It’s about a love affair. Betrayal. But it wasn’t just one betrayal. There were several.

“I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how I kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover.” — Leonard Cohen

“In Lotus you did know in advance since there was no future, just long stretches of killing time...If not for my two friends I would have suffocated by the time I was twelve. They, along with my little sister, kept the indifference of parents and the hatefulness of grandparents an afterthought. Nobody in Lotus knew anything or wanted to learn anything.” - Toni Morrison *Home*

“And love? Love is mostly ill-advised but always brave.” — Yrsa Daley-Ward

“It was a beautiful day, like a true love story aboard an express train.” — Mahmoud Darwish

“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.” — Peter Cameron

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