Exit West

by Mohsin Hamid

and always to trust her instincts about situations to avoid or to exit immediately.

a gesture so beautiful that Saeed was filled with love, and reminded of his parents, for whom he suddenly felt such gratitude, and a desire for peace, that peace should come for them all, for everyone, for everything, for we are so fragile, and so beautiful, and surely conflicts could be healed if others had experiences like this,

but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.

instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to pause and not act but be.

that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you. He

for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.

It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself,