Maps for Lost Lovers Quotes

“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, Maps for Lost Lovers

“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.”
― Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

“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.”
― Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

“All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.”
― Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

“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.”
― Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

“There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.”
― Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

“A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.”
― Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

“He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for the fear that his undisturbed shadow would leave a stain on the wall.”
― Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers