Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist Quotes

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.

...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.

one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.