Author: Nadeem Aslam

Cites

• Octavio Paz (1)
  • IN: Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
    FROM: The Double Flame, (1993), Book, Mexico
• John Berger (1)
  • IN: Season of the Rainbirds (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If I'd been told as a child what the life of an adult is like, I wouldn't have belived it. I'd never have believed it could be so unfinished.
    FROM: Once in Europa, (1987), Book, UK
• Aeschylus (1)
  • IN: The Blind Man's Garden (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But a man's life blood is dark and mortal. Once it wets the earth what song can it sing back?
    FROM: Agamemnon, (-458), Play, Greece
• Czesław Miłosz (1)
  • IN: The Blind Man's Garden (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If there is no God, Not everything is permitted to man. He is still his brother's keeper And he is not permitted to sadden his brother, By saying that there is no God.
    FROM: If there is No God, (2002), Poem, US/Poland
• John Milton (1)
  • IN: The Blind Man's Garden (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...how he fell Frrom Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the chrystal Battlements: from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summer's day; and with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lemnos th' Ægean Ile.
    FROM: Paradise Lost, (1667), Poem, UK
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Blind Man's Garden (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: For all the boots of the tramping warriors and all the garments rolled in blood shall be burned as fuel for the fire
    FROM: Isaiah, (-165), Bible, NULL