Komal Nadeem

“All pain is the same. Only the details are different.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”
― Wally Lamb, I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison