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“What happened to not speaking ill of the dead?” “I guess some people can’t be dead enough,” he said.
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
Laila had the strange experience of telling a lie that was really the truth.
She thought of Aziza’s stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.
Are they being foolish, she wonders, leaving behind the safety of Murree?

