Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil Quotes
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
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 display.
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.
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.