Quotes from Haroon Moghul

staring out windows impossible to defenestrate therefrom.

to be a Muslim is to be an insomniac.

I was the kid who made a beeline for the library when the last bell rang, but also harder, because how do you define yourself against such an identity? On what grounds? With what confidence?

Islam was no longer a straitjacket into which I forced myself, nor a nonnative language I learned from others around me, but a grammar through which I vowed to write my own stories.