

“Failure is a greater teacher than success”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves

“I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.”
― Moth Smoke
― Moth Smoke

“There are two social classes in Pakistan," Professor Superb said to his unsuspecting audience, gripping the podium with both hands as he spoke. "The first group, large and sweaty, contains those referred to as the masses. The second group is much smaller, but its members exercise vastly greater control over their immediate environment and are collectively termed the elite. The distinction between members of these two groups is made on the basis of control of an important resource:air-conditioning. You see, the elite have managed to re-create for themselves the living standards of say, Sweden without leaving the dusty plains of the subcontinent. They're a mixed lot - Punjabi and Pathans, Sindhis and Baluchis, smugglers , mullahs, soldiers, industrialists - united by their residence in an artificially cooled world. They wake up in air-conditioned houses, drive air-conditioned cars to air-conditioned offices, grab lunch in air-conditioned restaurants (rights of admission reserved), and at the end of the day go home to an air-conditioned lounges to relax in front of their wide-screen TVs. And if they should think about the rest of the people, the great uncooled, and become uneasy as they lie under their blankets in the middle of the summer, there is always prayer, five times a day, which they hope will gain them admittance to an air-conditioned heaven, or at the very least, a long, cool drink during a fiery day in hell.”
― Moth Smoke
― Moth Smoke

“丕賱兀賲丕賰賳 丕賱兀毓賲賯 賮賷 丕賱賳賮爻 賴賷 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賰賵賳 兀卮丿 馗賱賲丞貙 賵爻賵賮 鬲毓賲賱 丕賱賲乇兀丞 丕賱卮噩丕毓丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲匕亘賱 賯賵丕賴丕 毓賱賶 廿氐賱丕丨 丕賱兀乇囟 丕賱噩丿亘丕亍 賮賷 賳賮爻賴丕. 爻賵賮 鬲鬲賰賵賳 賱丿賷賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賱兀賯賱 氐賵乇丞 賱賲丕 賴賷 毓賱賷賴貙 賱匕賱賰 賱丕 鬲禺丕賮賷 賲賳 賲毓乇賮鬲賰 亘賲丕 賴賵 丕賱兀爻賵亍貙 賮賴匕丕 丕賱囟賲丕賳 丕賱賵丨賷丿 丕賱匕賷 賷夭賷丿 賲賳 賯賵丞 丕賱乇賵丨.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
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