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Quotes by Afghan Authors
"Fame and recognition break all scandals, if I were a prostitute I would have chosen to be a famous one."
"No one loves us here, let's go to Mars."
"Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head."
"The most precious gift you can ever give to a young woman is, appreciating and understanding her true feelings."
"It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out."
"To find yourself different than others, you must believe,behave and act differently."
"James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?"
"Who rebels with mathematics?"
"Boys find love in pants and girls find in pockets."
"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
"Every relationship is a cost benefit calculation, either it is material or spiritual."
"You say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you."
"Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can't raise my voice you can't raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists."
"Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns."
"Very soon nations will understand that in reality Water is the most expensive natural resource for their survivals. Not Middle East oil neither African gold."
"He had the blue kite in his hands, that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips."
"She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor."
"I can't simulate you with moon, moon is fully naked and you are fully clothed."
"Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist."
"Be ready for every moment, you don't know which check is the checkmate."
"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."
"My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children."
"In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them."
"Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly."
"Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions."
"Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives."
"Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one."
"Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion."
"I stay neutral with homosexuality, I neither support nor condemn it. But if people are happy with it we must not interfere."
"A beautiful woman always has her own place in everyman's heart."
"Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread."
"Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above."
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