Nadeem Aslam

“As a child he used to wonder why Eve was taken from Adam’s rib. Now, at the other end of his life,…

— Nadeem Aslam

“Modesty and decency dwell in the mind, not in a burka.”

— Nadeem Aslam

“The young everywhere…would prefer to live in houses that consist only of doors.”

— Nadeem Aslam

“God is just a name for our wonder.”

— Nadeem Aslam

“I don’t feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.”

— Nadeem Aslam

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

— 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…

— Nadeem Aslam

“How easy it is to create ghosts, he thinks as he begins to die a minute later, feeling his mind closing chamber…

— Nadeem Aslam

“Shamas stands in the open door and watches the earth, the magnet that it is, pulling snowflakes out of the sky towards…

— Nadeem Aslam

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

— Nadeem Aslam

“Not even God can change the past.”

— Nadeem Aslam

“Tell me,' the man leans forward and says, 'have you heard of a lady called Madeleine? No? In 1996, this lady named…

— Nadeem Aslam

“The bigger the sin, the rarer and more expensive the bird that is needed to erase it. Is that how the bird…

— Nadeem Aslam