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“She leaves the spoon and takes my face in her hands. They're warm and smell devine. She holds me, whispering, "God help him understand you are still a child. God give you health and prosperity. God release you from all you wish to be released from." I shut my eyes and hope she never releases me.”
― Uzma Aslam Khan, The Geometry of God

“How secure is a forty-year-old state? I remember the garrison towns of the Punjab plains, the fenced-off lands, the young soldiers, and I have my answer. To a republic, forty is infancy. And this is its horror, as it carves itself from ancient land, ancient water.”
― Uzma Aslam Khan, The Geometry of God

“My faith is what they bury when they force me to expose it.”
― Uzma Aslam Khan, The Geometry of God