To remember them is not simply to look back, but to understand how this country came into being. — Alesha Faraz, The Crossing Copy Share WhatsApp
by Alesha Faraz
Fiction · 177 pages
“A woman grabbing a crying child’s wrist, freezing, then letting go when she realized the child was not hers.”
“Yasmeen imagined the diya glowing on the terrace at dusk, a tiny light shared between two families who had always lived as neighbours, not lines on a map.”
“Tariq leaned into him, eyes heavy with exhaustion and fear and something new, hope that had not fully died.”
Alesha Faraz is a Pakistani writer, youth advocate, and founder whose work centers on childhood, social development, and the ways communities endure rupture and rebuild meaning. Her writing is shap…
“If you always avoid difficult conversations, your relationships remain shallow.”
“Our life has changed, but not necessarily in the direction we intended.”
“Because in the real world, where work happens, where decisions are made, where people build lives, no one cares about your waistline.”
“If you have fear about something remember, there is no option but to dominate your fear and not let your fear dominate.”
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