For the first time I am confronted with the fact that places and people are like things: both made of memories and meaningful to us in the same way: we construct ourselves in our conversations with them.
— Bilal TanweerA city is all about how you look at it.
— Bilal TanweerPeople who ran away are friends!
— Bilal TanweerMy dear, you are not one person. You have many people in you, and each one can ask only some kinds of questions.
— Bilal TanweerNow, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and everything that is dark. And then this terrifying thought hits you: Yes, your father wrote poetry to find a language for his wounds. Yes, you in your own way have become your father.
— Bilal TanweerWhat appears strange and complex becomes stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That's the true nature of the world.
— Bilal Tanweer