The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
Mahvesh Murad
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The circle that they drew was laid with fresh petals from the cherry tree on a bed of salt...”
“Wishing for love is the same as wishing for more wishes.”
“The power I exert, I do so because I am wise, and clever, and know something of the turning of the world.”
“Memory depends on the medium, I thought; brains are such imperfect recorders. I”
“Just enough heat to smooth, not enough to scorch... Careful judgment, minute by minute.”
“a swirl of smoke trapped in a glass bottle, an odd unlabelled thing unknowingly put up for sale.”
“Throne of my lonely niche, my wealth, my love, my moonlight. My most sincere friend, my confidant, my very existence, my Sultan, my one and only love. The most beautiful among the beautiful… My springtime, my merry faced love, my daytime, my sweetheart, laughing leaf… My plants, my sweet, my rose, the one only who does not distress me in this world… My Constantinople, my Caraman, the earth of my Anatolia My Badakhshan, my Baghdad and Khorasan My woman of the beautiful hair, my love of the slanted brow, my love of eyes full of mischief… I’ll sing your praises always I, lover of the tormented heart, Muhibbi of the eyes full of tears, I am happy.”
“They were taller than the tallest men in the village”
“Then he saw it. The feet of every man in the congregation were turned backwards at the ankles.”
“The wishes in this story are wishes built the way wishes are always built, and the way bullets are built too, to keep going long after they’ve left the safety of silence. Each person is a projectile filled with sharp voice and broken volume, blasts of maybe.”
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