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- To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible.
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- “We are all migrants through time.” ― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West.
- “To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.” ― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West.
- “when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.” ― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West.
- “... he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity's potential for building a better world, so he prayed as a lament, as a consolation, and as a hope....”
“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.” ― Mohsin Hamid, quote from Exit West. Copy text. “He prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way.
“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.” ― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West. tags: love. 155 likes. Like. “If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced.
Explanation of the famous quotes in Exit West, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
Exit West, written by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid, is a compelling and thought-provoking novel that delves into the complexities of migration, love, and the human spirit.
16 of the best book quotes from Exit West. 01. “It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, and, not just in Marin, but in the whole region, in the Bay Area, and in many other places too, places both near and far, the apocalypse appeared to have arrived and yet it was not apocalyptic ...
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