Adnan Khan Quotes

Life teach you lessons and those lessons are very painful.

there is no understanding between me and this world they don't understand me and i don't care them.

...in some essential way, being so greedy for love had meant that I couldn’t see her, that I never knew her, that my thirst for her was more vicarious than my knowledge of her, that my greediness had more depth than the space I gave her to live.

In our conversations, Pakistanis would lament about how their film talent did not get adequate opportunities to realise their true potential due to government policies. Thankfully, Bollywood has helped out. If Pakistanis like Salma Agha, Javed Shaikh, Fawad Khan, Humaira Mallick, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan or Adnan Sami have got the international adulation they so richly deserve, it is only because Bollywood provided them the necessary platform to do so.

His ambition extinguished itself getting us to the country. Its bitter pit remained.

Now it’s shawarma shops: tahini sauce and tender meat, hungry students, cab drivers, late-nite drunks. What happened to our greatness? How did we go from conquerors to Uber delivery, from emperors to 7/11?

This is what her life in Canada accumulated to. No wonder she left.

Bro: Natalie, my girlfriend, my Catholic, Filipino, drunk-ass girlfriend —

That was his magnetism. There was a discreet confidence that made people want to talk and talk and talk. Receiving his attention was a gift.

He became newly motivated by the hidden Islam in the Americas: Ayba Suleiman Diallo, Omar ibn Said, the plentiful white reverts, Malcolm X.

I didn’t trust white people converting to Islam after 9/11.

They ate Indian food with silver cutlery, sat on boards of directors, went to the mosque only on Eid and carefully analyzed potential partners’ family histories for blemishes. People that planned in decades.