Chains Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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……

— Nadeem Aslam

“We are warriors of Allah.” “You are thugs with Korans.”

— Nadeem Aslam

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Nadeem Aslam

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

— Nadeem Aslam

“The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.”

— 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…

— Nadeem Aslam

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

— Nadeem Aslam