"羞耻"：引人深思的撕心裂肺之作

The air there is full of unasked questions. But their smell is faint, and the flowers in the many maturing gardens, the trees lining the avenues, the perfumes worn by the beautiful, soignée ladies of the neighbourhood quite overpower this other, too-abstract odour.

You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

Shame: a short word, but one containing encyclopaedias of nuance. It was not only shame that his mothers forbade him to feel, but also embarrassment, discomfort, decency, modesty, shyness, the sense of having an ordained place in the world, and other dialects of emotion for which English has no counterparts.