Quotes from Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil

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.

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

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

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

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.