Mohsin Hamid - Moth Smoke (2000)

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Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that.

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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

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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.

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The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'. 'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.

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If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

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And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.

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There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

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