Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know. - Zia Haider Rahman
It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool’s errand. - Zia Haider Rahman
Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us. - Zia Haider Rahman
Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you. - Zia Haider Rahman
You think people never say what they mean. The truth is, nine times out of ten what they say is all they mean. - Zia Haider Rahman
That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you. - Zia Haider Rahman
No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need. - Zia Haider Rahman
When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench? - Zia Haider Rahman
Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean. - Zia Haider Rahman