Top 100 Tahir Quotes
#1. The ants are bad" The Bear
"the ants?"Tahir
"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman.
Tahir Shah
#2. Pakistan's foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
#3. Bring up the past only if it will help to build the future, otherwise its best to be left to sleep
Tahir M Khan
#4. The field of battle is my temple. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.
Sabaa Tahir
#5. At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.
Tahir Shah
#6. Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.
Tahir Shah
#7. Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.
Tahir Shah
#9. All evil here. Monsters. Little monsters and then big ones.
Sabaa Tahir
#10. The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.
Tahir Shah
#11. In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.
Tahir Shah
#13. Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
Faran Tahir
#14. So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.
Sabaa Tahir
#15. Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the confusion rolling around inside the both of us.
This should be interesting
Sabaa Tahir
#16. There is nothing like a train journey for reflection.
Tahir Shah
#17. Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.
Sabaa Tahir
#18. Life is hard enough without having to avoid entire rooms in my own head.
Sabaa Tahir
#19. I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff's night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over your shoulder, a silence that feels like a living thing.
Sabaa Tahir
#20. Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.
Tahir Shah
#21. She takes my arm like an old friend would. "Welcome to the Waiting Place, the realm of ghosts. I am the Soul Catcher, and I am here to help you cross to the other side.
Sabaa Tahir
#22. None of them seemed to mind sliding around in the faeces and choking in the smoke. They were determined not to miss the opportunity of watching a foreigner make a fool of himself.
Tahir Shah
#23. Laia is curled in a ball on the other, one hand on her armlet, fast asleep.
"You are my temple", I murmur as I knee beside her. "You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release."- Elias
Sabaa Tahir
#24. In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.
Tahir Shah
#25. I'm a fool, that I should simply trick the tourists like everyone else. after all, most of them will never come back. and what are tourists for but for tricking?
Tahir Shah
#26. But you are not finished. You are my masterpiece, Helene Aquilla, but I have just begun. If you survive, you shall be a force to be reckoned with in this world. But first you will be unmade. First, you will be broken.
Sabaa Tahir
#27. Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
Tahir Shah
#28. On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
Tahir Shah
#29. The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
Tahir Shah
#30. I'd say it's impossible, but the Commandant trained the word out of me.
Sabaa Tahir
#31. Laia is the wild dance of a Tribal campfire, while Helene is the cold blue of an alchemist's flame.
Sabaa Tahir
#32. My brother is still fighting, and his screams slice right through me. I know then that I will hear them over and over again, echoing in every hour of every day until I am dead or I make it right. I know it.
Sabaa Tahir
#33. Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.
Tahir Shah
#34. After I pull my eyes away from her, I realize that I'm not the only one dumbstruck. Many of the young men around me sneak glances at her. She doesn't seem to notice, which, of course, makes her all the more intriguing.
Sabaa Tahir
#35. In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.
Tahir Shah
#36. During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.
Tahir Shah
#37. To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path
Tahir Shah
#38. Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
Faran Tahir
#39. The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.
Tahir Shah
#40. The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.
Tahir Shah
#41. Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.
Sabaa Tahir
#42. His eyes are unfathomably sad as he lifts my chin. "Most people," Cain says, "are nothing but glimmers in the great darkness of time. But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn." "Just
Sabaa Tahir
#43. The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.
Tahir Shah
#44. You're sure this is what you want?" I search her eyes for doubt, fear, uncertainty, but all I see is that fire. Ten hells
"I'm sure"
"Then I'll find a way
Sabaa Tahir
#45. What came next was a new experience for for both the fish and me
Tahir Shah
#46. Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
Tahir Shah
#47. Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
Tahir Shah
#48. So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand?
Sabaa Tahir
#49. The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.
Tahir Shah
#50. your sins were blood, child, you would drown in a river of your own making." Elias
Sabaa Tahir
#51. In India everything has a use and a value.
Tahir Shah
#52. I'd rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul.
Sabaa Tahir
#53. In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.
Tahir Shah
#54. The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
Tahir Shah
#55. It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
Tahir Shah
#56. There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.
Tahir Shah
#57. The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.
Tahir Shah
#58. You fool, Helene. When you love, there is always more pain.
Sabaa Tahir
#59. You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.
Sabaa Tahir
#60. Just because he's a good leader doesn't mean he's a good person.
Sabaa Tahir
#61. In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
Tahir Shah
#62. In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt
if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful.
Tahir Shah
#65. They [terrorists] can't claim that their suicide bombings are martyrdom operations and that they become the heroes of the Muslim Ummah [global brotherhood]. No, they become heroes of hellfire, and they are leading towards hellfire.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
#66. There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.
Tahir Shah
#69. I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
Faran Tahir
#70. Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.
Tahir Shah
#71. So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. Wonderful.
Sabaa Tahir
#72. In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.
Tahir Shah
#73. Foras Road has a sordid reputation ( ... ) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.
Tahir Shah
#74. As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by their affection.
Tahir Shah
#75. Perhaps I have become so accustomed to the burden of secrets that I do not notice their weight until I am free of it.
Sabaa Tahir
#76. The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.
Tahir Shah
#77. Nothing was really so important to my father as the achievement of selflessness. He rarely mentioned it directly, but tried to guide us to it in a roundabout way.
Tahir Shah
#78. There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged but it's there. Don't let them take it from you.
Sabaa Tahir
#79. I should just build a bleeding house here," I mutter as I pick myself up off the snow-covered ground. "Maybe get a few chickens. Plant a garden.
Sabaa Tahir
#80. I do not doubt, I do not hesitate. I am the Lioness's daughter, and I have the Lioness's strength.
Sabaa Tahir
#81. The thought appears in my head, but I hardly know what I means.
Sabaa Tahir
#82. Shadows will bloom in your heart, and you will become everything you hate.
Sabaa Tahir
#83. Children are born to break their mothers' hearts, my boy.
Sabaa Tahir
#84. Family is worth dying for, killing for. Fighting for them is all that keeps us going when everything else is gone.
Sabaa Tahir
#85. I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had arrived.
Tahir Shah
#86. Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed.
Tahir Shah
#87. Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.
Tahir Shah
#88. Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
Tahir Shah
#89. As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
Tahir Shah
#90. Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand.
Sabaa Tahir
#91. The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.
Tahir Shah
#92. I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
Tahir Shah
#93. I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing.
Sabaa Tahir
#94. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged, but it's there. Don't let them take it from you, Elias.
Sabaa Tahir
#95. We may yearn for rustic detail and old-world charm, but those who have it set their minds on vinyl wallpaper, fitted carpets and all mod cons.
Tahir Shah
#96. Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.
Sabaa Tahir
#97. You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release.
Sabaa Tahir
#98. My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.
Tahir Shah
#99. As far as I was concerned, a little danger of head-shrinking is a small price to pay in return for a people who have remained true to an ancient code.
Tahir Shah
#100. Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.
Tahir Shah
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