This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.

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

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

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

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

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.

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