The Trader of War Stories
Naveed Qazi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“How long can I mold my identity in the changing world around me? Sometimes, I feel that I am a refugee in exile whose life has been smashed into pieces by many ill facets of ghastly wars.”
“Someone had told me that the Taliban reserve was limitless and there were never huge causalities in their organisation.”
“People still were emotionally connected to the vale by seeing a value in their local cultural life. They were still seriously political and tried to find their identity by inheriting memories from the experiences of each other. For Kashmiris, the struggle to remember never ended.”
“For immigrants, nothing was simple, ever.”
“Bullet-ridden bodies were not saved easily. For these fallen soldiers, it wasn’t a sort of accident that happened unexpectedly, it was rather an ordeal of fate that had to come one day. Death made them lose in its surety.”
“At one point in time, I had thought that my writing was a product of my circumstances and the uncertainty around me. There was a human vulnerability in combat journalism, wherever I was reporting on the continuous war. But it also made me love the poetic beauty in words.”
“When there was sunshine followed by calm winds in the summer, the water of these rivers reflected many shiny ripples, and in the sunset, transformed into quiet, silver coloured watercourses.”
“Wars were full of valour, coming of courage, fomenting of rage and the anticipation of victory. The soldiers were content with what they had spoiled, but it had made my mind run wild in the battles I had escaped. How could I ever obliterate such memories? Such things were hard to forget.”
“Veiled women were often found begging on the streets. Street hustlers made a living by pickpocketing. There was poverty around where some people could kill each other for bread, there were orphanages that were abundant, where young boys and girls were sold off to their novice masters, for imposed drudgery, that would continue for a major part of their lives.”
“There were very few panaceas in a war-torn society.”
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war, kashmir, bosnia, afghanistan, passage, fiction
