Exit West — Vocabulary
Moshin Hamid
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It was expensive to stay nearby, the camps there often having migrants with more money, and Saeed was becoming worried.p.118.5alternate pages32 more

Perhaps because she did not, until Saeed's conception two decades later, get pregnant, and assumed therefore she could not, she was able to have sex with abandon, without, that is, thought of consequences or the distractions of child-rearing.p.13.9alternate pages2 more

The agent shrugged as though it was of no consequence to him,p.103.6alternate pages2 more

In contrast to Saeed, Nadia saw no need to limit her phone.p.41.2alternate pages4 more

...in any case Nadia had taken one look at Saeed's father and felt him like a father, for he was so gentle, and evoked in her a protective caring, as if for one's own child, or for a puppy, or for a beautiful memory one knows has already commenced to fade.p.80.9alternate pages5 more

Nadia's mother and sister were quiet women and her father a man who tried to be quiet, thinking this a virtue, but who nonetheless came to a boil easily and often where Nadia was concerned.p.22.1alternate pages6 more

The first dwellings that the workers of their camp had built were almost ready to be occupied, and Sneed and Nadia were not too far down the list, and so by the end of autumn they could look forward to moving into a home of their own.p.171.3alternate pages5 more

WHEN SAEED AND NADIA finally had coffee together in the cafeteria, which happened the following week, after the very next session of their class, Saeed asked her about her conservative and virtually all-concealing black robe.p.16.8alternate pages2 more

But even now the city's freewheeling virtual world stood in stark contrast to the day-to-day lives of most people...p.42.4alternate pages2 more

And that, as they were both fond of saying when recounting the story of their meeting in subsequent years, was that.†p.12.5alternate pages4 more

Nadia did not feel like sleeping, and SO she took a shower, the water chilly because of the intermittent gas supply to her boiler.p.48.4alternate pages6 more

This building had once been a single house, but it was constructed adjacent to a market that had subsequently grown past and around it.p.27.6alternate pages4 more

Tales were told at these places that people from all over now gathered to hear, for the tales of these natives felt appropriate to this time of migration, and gave listeners much-needed sustenance.†p.197.7alternate pages4 more

Around the same time, a group of militants was taking over the city's stock exchange.p.43.5alternate pages32 more

He and Nadia journeyed to the sea, and stood on a rock, and put bread on the hook, and tried to fish, alone, two people by themselves, all but surrounded by water the breeze was chopping into opaque hillocks, concealing what lay beneath, and they fished and fished for hours, taking turns, but neither of them knew how to fish, or maybe they were just unlucky, and though they felt nibbles, they caught nothing, and it was as though they were merely feeding their bread to the insatiable…p.115.9alternate pages2 more

Nadia frequently explored the terrain of social media, though she left little trace of her passing, not posting much herself, and employing opaque usernames and avatars, the online equivalents of her black robes.p.41.7alternate pages2 more

...they usually bartered with a promise of something to eat tomorrow or the next day in exchange for something to eat today,p.133.8alternate pages5 more

A sort of camaraderie evolved, as it might not have had they been on the street, in the open, for then they would likely have scattered, and the devil take the hindmost, but here they were penned in together, and being penned in made them into a grouping, a group.†p.128.1alternate pages1 more

...and atop this tree Saeed had spotted a hawk constructing its nest. Sometimes it floated at eye level, almost stationary in the wind, and then, with the tiniest movement of a wing, or even of the upturned feathers at one wingtip, it veered.p.6.8alternate pages2 more

Saeed had once more asked her to move in with him and his family, telling her that he could explain things to his parents, and she could have his room, and he would sleep in the sitting room, and they would not have to marry, they would only, out of respect for his parents, have to remain chaste in the house, and it would be safer for her, for this was no time for anyone to be alone.p.74.2alternate pages2 more