Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.

Nadeem Aslam

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Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of t... by Nadeem Aslam

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

interconnectedness thread world

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every st... by Nadeem Aslam

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

dying journey steps

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

citizens bravery people

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a fai... by Nadeem Aslam

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

faithful prayer sight

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.

names home trying

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation. by Nadeem Aslam

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

innocent guilty people

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

mountain grief world

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at... by Nadeem Aslam

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

different broken lying

History is the third parent. by Nadeem Aslam

History is the third parent.

thirds parent

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the... by Nadeem Aslam

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

distance light artist

Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.

next-day mistake mean

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remaine... by Nadeem Aslam

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

streets certain sky

Her mind is a haunted house. by Nadeem Aslam

Her mind is a haunted house.

haunted-houses mind house

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's lonel... by Nadeem Aslam

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

glimpse results loneliness

This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.

enough heart world

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

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

desks homeland

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 two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.

cutting emotional names

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling i... by Nadeem Aslam

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

doe lying people

There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

this-life want world

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.

bullets gun important