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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."
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"A passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna..."
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"It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin."
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"There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive."
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"Men dream more about coming home than about leaving."
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"I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ..."
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"Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill."
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"It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another."
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"I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing."
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"The lost glove is happy."
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"There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry."
Culture
"A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it."
Psychology
"My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters."
Love
"I will follow you to the ends of the world."
Love
“About clichés. Avoid them like the plague.”
Creativity
"They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him."
Life
"I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins."
Spiritual
"And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan."
Family
"Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro."
Life
"I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!"
Emotion
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