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The Blind Man's Garden QUOTES

The Blind Man's Garden QUOTES

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

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

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

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

3 " Not even God can change the past. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

4 " God is just a name for our wonder. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

5 " There are no innocent people in a guilty nation. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

6 " History is the third parent. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

7 " Wounds are said to emit light under certain conditions - touch them and the brightness will stay on the hands - and as candles burn Rohan thinks of each flame as an injury somewhere in his house. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

8 " Modesty and decency dwell in the mind, not in a burka. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

9 " The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

10 " 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.... This almost-brother. This blood-love in everything but name. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

11 " From the book he carefully tears out several maps, and in this light Afghanistan’s mountains and hills and restlessly branching corridors of rock appear as though the pages are crumpled up, and there is a momentary wish in him to smooth them down. Laser-guided bombs are falling onto the pages in his hands, missiles summoned from the Arabian Sea, from American warships that are as long as the Empire State Building is tall. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

12 " I don’t feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

13 " When a coin is minted, the devil kisses it. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

14 " The scent of the tree's flowers can stop conversation. Rohan knows no purer source of melancholy. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

15 " The bigger the sin, the rarer and more expensive the bird that is needed to erase it. Is that how the bird pardoner conducts his business? A sparrow for a small deception, but a paradise flycatcher and a monal pheasant for allowing a doubt about His existence to enter the mind. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

16 " We are not men of hate, but we must be men of justice. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

17 " 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 old. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

18 " She listens, determined to locate the trapped bird that had called out from within the madness of suffering. But there is only silence now, not even a halting fragment. Ali! Ali! A dervish, having renounced dealings with all words except that one, never utters another, in any circumstance...The sentence enters her mind from a book she had been looking at earlier. Her gaze is drifting across the sky where the moon sits in a great cold ring as she recalls more and more words. Only one thing matters, only one word. If we speak, it is because we have not found that thing, nor shall find it. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

19 " If I take dust in my hand and ask you if that is all the dust there is, you will answer that dust is everywhere on earth. More specks than can ever be numbered. So I can give you a handful of truth only. Besides this there are other truths. More than can ever be numbered. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden

20 " As a child he used to wonder why Eve was taken from Adam’s rib. Now, at the other end of his life, these decades later, he knows it was because the rib is close to the heart. "

― Nadeem Aslam , The Blind Man's Garden