Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

Good is not a thing you are. It is a thing you do.

Be careful with this one” said Dina, bending down to greet the cat. “All cats are half jinn, but I think she’s three quarters.

How dense and literal it is. I thought it had a much more sophisticated brain.” “Your mother is dense,” Alif said wearily. “My mother was an errant crest of sea foam. But that is neither...

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Festivals and fasts are unhinged, traveling backward at a rate of ten days per year, attached to no season. Even Laylat ul Qadr, the holiest night in Ramadan, drifts–its precise date is unknown. The iconclasm...

I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on...

The force that played havoc with the cortisol in my blood was the same force that helped my body recover; if I felt better one day and worse the next, it was unchanged. It chose...

All translations are made up” opined Vikram, “Languages are different for a reason. You can’t move ideas between them without losing something