“ Tell me,' the man leans forward and says, 'have you heard of a lady called Madeleine? No? In 1996, this lady named Albright Madeleine, the US ambassador to the United Nations, was asked on television… Nadeem Aslam
“ Be careful, she said. You can’t fight a tiger.Yes you can, he said. You can if you are a tiger yourself. Nadeem Aslam
“ Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- you w… Nadeem Aslam
“ Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble. Nadeem Aslam
“ The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes. Nadeem Aslam
“ What strange times are these, says Tara as they wend their way through the dead to safety, when Muslims must fear other Muslims. Nadeem Aslam
“ This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world. Nadeem Aslam
“ If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were both ten years old. Nadeem Aslam
“ All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings. Nadeem Aslam
“ The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war. Nadeem Aslam
“ At the gun shop, AK-47s were stacked six high on the shelves … The day after the West invaded Afghanistan, a ‘piety discount’ was introduced for those who wished to buy the weapon to go the jihad. Nadeem Aslam
