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> [“She listens, determined to locate the trapped bird that had called out from within the madness of suffering. But there is only silence now, not even a halting fragment. Ali! Ali! A dervish, having renounced dealings with all words except…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/she-listens-determined-to-locate-the-trapped-bird-that-had-called-out/)

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## More by Nadeem Aslam

> [“Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between the episodes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/only-twenty-nine-years-in-the-entire-human-history-had-been-without/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/the-neighbourhood-is-a-place-of-intrigue-and-emotional-espionage/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [“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……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/if-love-was-the-result-of-having-caught-a-glimpse-of-another-s/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [“We are warriors of Allah.” “You are thugs with Korans.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/we-are-warriors-of-allah-you-are-thugs-with-korans/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/afghanistan-had-collapsed-and-everyone-s-life-now-lies-broken-at/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/this-is-among-the-few-things-that-can-be-said-about-love-with-any/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/if-love-was-the-result-of-having-caught-a-glimpse-of-another-s-2/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/how-keen-everyone-is-to-make-this-world-their-home-forgetting-its/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/on-the-journey-towards-the-beloved-you-live-by-dying-at-every-step/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [“The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/the-sky-is-a-blue-so-clean-it-verges-on-joy/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/he-knows-that-had-he-been-a-young-man-himself-he-would-not-have/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/a-lie-does-not-become-truth-just-because-ten-people-are-telling-it/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [“Basie would lie on the mattress and talk endlessly, sometimes drinking from a bottle of Murree’s whisky he’d bring with him, bought from one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/basie-would-lie-on-the-mattress-and-talk-endlessly-sometimes-drinking/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [“He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/he-led-her-back-to-the-house-the-perfume-from-the-acacia-clinging-to/)

[Nadeem Aslam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadeem-aslam/)

> [“The scent of the tree's flowers can stop conversation. Rohan knows no purer source of melancholy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadeem-aslam/the-scent-of-the-tree-s-flowers-can-stop-conversation-rohan-knows-no/)

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