Nadeem Aslam Quotes

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

God is just a name for our wonder.

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.

Not even God can change the past.

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.

Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

Tell me,' the man leans forward ans says, 'have you heard of a lady called Madeleine? No? In 1996, this lady named Albright Madeleine, the US ambassador to the United Nations, was asked on television how she felt about the fact that five hundred thousand Iraqi children had died as a result of US economic sanctions? Do you know what she said? She said that it was "a very hard choice" but "we think the price is worth it". These are her exact words. How do you feel about that?'How do you think I feel about that? And I would take your love for children more seriously if you didn't have children cleaning your floors.

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