Opening pages

WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID

A Novel

by

Syed Muhammad Hur Jaffri

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Zakariya means: the one who remembers.

He remembered everything.

That was the problem.

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“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“To say nothing is sometimes the most dangerous thing to say.”

— Anonymous