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Every line below lives inside a real book by a Pakistani author. Read the quote, meet the book — and take the story home.

590 quotes
“For the first time in her life, she was mourning the loss of her mother.”
— Muneera Jamal, Bazaar
Grief & Loss
Cover of Bazaar
“Initially they were distraught; with time, they got over it and showered all their love on their daughter in law.”
— Suchitra Shetty, The Cascade of Life
Love Society
Cover of The Cascade of Life
“Or you could go back, and find the men Salahu and Shafique, their boss Talha Ghauri, you father’s favorite colleague, have them brought to justice, or whatever the word ‘Insaf’ means in our country.”
— Ahmed Moin, The Past That Molded Futures
Society Motivation
Cover of The Past That Molded Futures
“Rakhshi never called me bhayya, save the times when Amma forced her to and that was years ago when she was learning to speak.”
— Sarah Khan, Life's Peculiarities
Wisdom Success
Cover of Life's Peculiarities
“My mother jerked me up from the ground as my senses slowly returned and I could hear loud voices and women screaming outside our house.”
— Abhirun Das, Across the Line
Society
Cover of Across the Line
“The silence comforted her, as without even saying a word, he understood all her pain.”
— Zena Vatsa, Her Great Escapade
Grief & Loss
Cover of Her Great Escapade
“Whatever my mother may know on a subconscious level she will never choose to believe.”
— Arham Bhaiji, Holding Her Hand
Hope Truth
Cover of Holding Her Hand
“For all you bearded people, a girl sitting with you, looking at you, talking to only you is perfectly okay with religion.”
— Hafiza Noor Ul Ain Imtiaz, Not Crazy
Faith & Spirituality Society
Cover of Not Crazy
“The world that we’ve created around is nothing but the reflection of the depth of our souls.”
— Saman Malik, Letters from Nowhere
Life Faith & Spirituality
Cover of Letters from Nowhere
“My heart started pounding as I got into my car, there was no word of Sameer but still Ali knew something about him.”
— Hassan Mir, Unbroken Bonds
Love
Cover of Unbroken Bonds
“One of the guards took his suitcase and he ran towards his parents, his mother broke into tears and father hugged him with the grace of a proud tribal man.”
— Zeeshan Ahmed Khan, Shroud Of Honor
Grief & Loss
Cover of Shroud Of Honor
“As the time slid so did their life and dreams, for everybody must face the doings of time.”
— Aaima Abid, An Eastern Fairytale
Life Hope
Cover of An Eastern Fairytale
“One of the men dressed in a green kurta motioned to the others to stop, carefully analyzed the house, taking his time, and then slowly stepped forward.”
— Zuhaib Shaikh, The Return
Society
Cover of The Return
“An oxygen mask over her face and drops from the drip, falling fast as if they were the seconds of her life passing away.”
— Kinza Javed Choudhry, The Rainbow Journey
Life Truth
Cover of The Rainbow Journey
“For a mother to accept that her child might not be able to face the world once he will grow up?”
— Neeraj Brahmankar, An Abandoned leaf
Life
Cover of An Abandoned leaf
“When she laughed, the world would laugh with her and when she wept; the whole world would want to comfort her.”
— Bhaskar Paul, Poignance of the soul
Life Humour
Cover of Poignance of the soul
“Present- a profound moment experienced here and now but by reliving the past and by accepting that yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.”
— Sonia Mukhtar, Fall of Autumn
Hope Life
Cover of Fall of Autumn
“How could he get him to understand that he wished nothing more than to wipe the whole thing from his memory but the nightmares refused to leave him alone?”
— Hira Yousaf, Our Boys
Heartbreak Wisdom
Cover of Our Boys
“Even though my mother has a heart lined with marshmallows for me, she never refuses anything that I say.”
— Masooma Memon, Blues
Love
Cover of Blues
“Sameer always felt that she was overfilled with her thoughts and wanted to pour her heart out but her dumbness placed a permanent obstacle in the way; “what a life of hindrance…” thought Sameer.”
— Abad Official, The Timeworn Silence
Wisdom Life
Cover of The Timeworn Silence
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