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

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

“A daughter, a wife, a grandson,' You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly of the other races and civilization of the world, who left his own country in the West to set up a home among them in the East, and was ruined as a result, paying dearly for his foolish mistake. His life smashed to pieces by the barbarians surrounding him.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”