Sunlight on a Broken Column Quotes

“I think Destiny's purpose is merely to shock us at moments into a state of awareness; those moments are milestones in between which we have to find our own way.”
― Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column

“The whole city was richer because he was in it, and every street, and turn of a road held the possibility of his appearance.”
― Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column

“They sat behind a screen, and grunted and wheezed over sheets of brown paper that looked as if ink-dipped and intoxicated spiders had danced across them.”
― Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column

“I felt I lived in two worlds; an observer in an outside world, and solitary in my own -”
― Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column

“She had a nose that looked like an afterthought, not moulded into her face, but stuck on much as a child would model a face; and she was so thin it seemed her zeal for conversion had consumed her flesh”
― Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column