“The forgiveness of the weak is the air you strong ones breath, David. Didn't you know? You don't see it but you felt it just then. They allow you to go on living.” — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between the episodes… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were ten years old....… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble. — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“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… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“He knows that had he been a young man himself he would not have stopped at Peshawar: he doesn’t know how he would have… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
