"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, Gratitude, Life, Happiness

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"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."

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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

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"Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above."

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"In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst."

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"Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam."

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"Once, when I was little, I asked her if she'd cried when my father had fallen to his death.At the funeral? I mean, the burial?No, I did not.Because you weren't sad?Because it was nobody's business if I was."

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"Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency."

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"He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor."

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"Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist."

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"Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly."

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"If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing."

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