The Reluctant Fundamentalist Quotes

“I could not respect how he functioned so completely immersed in the structures of his professional micro-universe. Yes, I too had previously derived comfort from my firm's exhortations to focus intensely on work, but now I saw that in this constant striving to realize a financial future, no thought was given to the critical personal and political issues that affect one's emotional present. In other words, my blinders were coming off, and I was dazzled and rendered immobile by the sudden broadening of my arc of vision.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist: From Book to Film

“So Erica felt better in a place like this, separated from the rest of us, where people could live in their minds without feeling bad about it.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist: From Book to Film

“.., but I would suggest that it is instead our solitude that most disturb us, the fact that we are all but alone despite being in the heart of a city.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist: From Book to Film