Saleem Quotes & Sayings

After all, aren't housekeepers the bearers of all family secrets — Saleem Haddad

What's the story of
the hidden daisies among the roses,
& the stars which break at the dawn,
or the littered leaves after the storm.
#Unsung — Saleem Sharma

I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places. — Saleem Haddad

If he's not real, you'll know. Men have never washed a rented car. — Saleem Sharma

Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles. — Saleem Durrani

Because Saleem was louder about Islam than I was, he was considered more of a man. — Ali Eteraz

Your woman should always be short of words and full of kisses. — Saleem Sharma

Yes, I'd still have Sonia. And Zia. And so many other things that Karim no longer had. I'd still have the Arabian Sea and Sindhri mangoes, and crabbing with Captain Saleem, who had the most popular boat of all because his business card promoted 'Garunteed no cockroach', and, yes, there's still be those bottles of creamy, flavored milk from Rahat Milk Corner and drives to the airport for coffee and warm sand at the beach and Thai soup at Yuan Tung; yes, Burns Road nihari; yes, student biryani; oh, yes, yes, yes, and all that, and all that again. So why complain? Why contemplate words like 'longing'? — Kamila Shamsie

Flowers say you're sorry.
A date says you've learnt your lesson.
A diamond says both the above.
All three and you're making her suspicious. — Saleem Sharma

The worst thing about being perfect is that you can't make mistakes. — Saleem Sharma

Oh, I loathe weddings. I loathe sitting down and participating in inane conversations with proud parents and smug couples who all look like they might secretly hate each other. — Saleem Haddad

in the midst of too much incident, Baby Saleem fell ill. As if incapable of assimilating so many goings-on, he closed his eyes and became red and flushed. — Salman Rushdie

You know people say the opposite of fear is desire, where we presumably run away from what we fear and toward what we desire. But fear and desire are more complicated than that. There's fear at the heart of every desire and desire at the heart of fear. So I wonder, by desiring Taymour, what exactly are you afraid of? — Saleem Haddad

I'm not complaining - Women complaining — Saleem Sharma

Boys," I mutter tolerantly across the years to Saleem-at-twenty-four, "will be boys. — Salman Rushdie

I loved Taymour because he was from here, because everything in him reminded me of everything here, because to love him was to love this city and its history. And yet I couldn't love him because he was from here and so held ideas of how to be and how to love, which would never fit in with the love that we shared. — Saleem Haddad

... I fell in love with him even more, because I realized I was not just falling in love with Taymour but also with generations of him that connect through history, traits that had been passed down from one generation to the next. I was in love with his ancestry that stretched out for centuries. — Saleem Haddad

You said you'd come, but you n ever, so I,' she stuttered. I bowed my head. 'I have been in mourning,' I said, lamely, and she, 'But still you could have-my God, Saleem, you don't know, in our colony I can't tell anyone about my real magic, never, not even Picture Singh who is like a father, I must bottle it and bottle it, because they don't believe in such things, and I thought, Here is Saleem come, now at last I will have one friend, we can talk, we can be together, we have both been, and known, and arre how to say it, Saleem, you don't care, you got what you wanted and went off just like that, I am nothing to you, I know ... — Salman Rushdie

We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other. — Saleem Durrani

Beauty is when the beauty within reflects exactly on the outside. — Saleem Sharma

Maybe you are a memory who is supposed to live forever. — Saleem Sharma

To sleep and being able to. Rare
To sleep and deserve it. Rarer. — Saleem Sharma

The greatest rivers always find their way to the ocean. Like a ship reaching out to its motherland. — Saleem Sharma

Do you think I'm too Westernized?" I asked Leila as we walked back home from the library.
"What do you mean?"
"This guy, Sufyan, says I'm too Westernized."
"The American guy? You're letting an American guy tell you whether you're Arab enough?"
"He's originally Arab - " I began.
"Oh please. Arab Americans are even worse than white people. They look at you like they know you, as if they have an idea of what you're like from stereotypes and their parents' ancient memories. And when you don't conform to their image it terrifies them, because they wear their Arab culture like window dressing but underneath they are as white as snow. — Saleem Haddad

We all tell lies to protect our solitude. We deny the truth and present a false image of ourselves to blend into society. — Saleem Haddad

That feeling when you know you're being fought for. — Saleem Sharma

Sometimes words are just a crude translation of love. — Saleem Sharma

Confidence is something we all search for in ourselves, but! Its always there to give us strength and hope. — Saleem Durrani

As children inch their way into adolescence, the parent changes. He is an authority, a source of answers, and a chastising voice. Depending on the day, he may be resented, emulated, questioned, or defied.
Only as an adult can a child imagine his parent as a whole person, as a husband, a brother, or a son. Only then can a child see how his parent fits into the world beyond four walls. Saleem had only bits and pieces of his father, mostly the memories of a young boy. He would spend the rest of his life, he knew, trying to reconstruct his father with the scraps he could recall or gather from his mother. — Nadia Hashimi

There is no such thing as forcing someone to be free. My obligation is not to my love for him but rather to what this love represents. My obligation is only to myself. Like two parallel lines running alongside each other, Taymour and I could only ever come together if one of us were to break. — Saleem Haddad

As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss. — Saleem Sharma

Some people make a difference, some people make you different. — Saleem Sharma

You're a part of the order if you're not against it. — Saleem Sharma

Digging through my roots to understand the way my branches grew. — Saleem Haddad

Pause while reading a book only in case of two things:
1. To kiss
2. To sip coffee
Too bad both are a luxury. — Saleem Sharma

There is nothing as sincere as a mother's kiss. — Saleem Sharma

A star-spangled sky and you were looking the other way,
the night beckoned and waited and you waited for the day. — Saleem Sharma

Shiva and Saleem, victor and victim; understand our rivalry, and you will gain understanding of the age in which you live. (The reverse of this statement is also true.) — Salman Rushdie

Being not perfect is not about making mistakes and saying I'm sorry, but! its about learning from it and then being perfect for not making the same mistake again. — Saleem Durrani

You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life. — Saleem Sharma

If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right. — Saleem Sharma

I wish that the last breath of your life is a sigh of relief. — Saleem Sharma

Anderson, C. A., Shibuya, A., Ihori, N., Swing, E. L., Bushman, B. J., Sakamoto, A., Rothstein, H. R., Saleem, M., & Barlett, C. P. (2010). Violent video game effects on aggression, empathy, and prosocial behavior in Eastern and Western countries: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 136(2), 151-173. — Brian Housman

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it, or you're up to something. — Saleem Sharma

Deal with your wins and losses alike. With tequila, lemon and a pinch of salt. — Saleem Sharma

When two lovers discover a language of their own. — Saleem Sharma

A thousand moments lost because you took them for granted, just because you expected a thousand more. — Saleem Sharma

A meaning without a cause or a purpose, is just another word without a meaning. — Saleem Durrani

But in the midst of this decaying, burning city, there are pockets of hope. It can be found in the tiny dark rooms in underground bars, where women with short hair cheer on men in dresses. It can be felt in abandoned cinemas where anonymous strangers fall in love if only for a few moments, and in the living rooms where families crowd around, drinking sweet black tea and Skyping their homesick relatives so that together they can watch the long, rambling talk shows that go on all night. — Saleem Haddad

To stand a storm and get blown away by her whisper. — Saleem Sharma

The truth about people is that there are more fakes than originals. — Saleem Sharma

The ones you help you get up are the ones who know how it feels to fall down. — Saleem Sharma

Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim. — Saleem Sharma

The strongest men who exist are always someone else's strength. — Saleem Sharma

A tank full of life and a running tap. — Saleem Sharma

Oops Typo! - When God created humans. — Saleem Sharma

Women are suspicious. Men are devious. Infinite loop. — Saleem Sharma

The most overpowering will is the will to not work. — Saleem Sharma

Fear is a probability by its own cause of actions, if we live by it we lose all the possibilities of endurance — Saleem Durrani

Let him miss you. He should love to love your absence as well. — Saleem Sharma

You sip the water from the same ocean in which all the hope was lost. Us — Saleem Sharma