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Quotes by Afghan Authors
"Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed."
"In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them."
"Boys find love in pants and girls find in pockets."
"They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land."
"I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle."
"Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?"
"The most precious gift you can ever give to a young woman is, appreciating and understanding her true feelings."
"When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I cannot really trust it and I am not taking the risk of circulating my naked photos around."
"James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?"
"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."
"The moon is always holding the stars, you must do the same."
"Why shan't I cheat when every girl has a different taste?"
"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."
"She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns."
"I like to see you fully naked like the complete moon."
"Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly."
"Who rebels with mathematics?"
"Be ready for every moment, you don't know which check is the checkmate."
"All the nightmares will come true, whether you try or not, but for your dreams to come true, you have to do everything."
"The reason why a man cannot stop staring at a woman ass is only because God has spent 80 percent of his time and efforts on woman ass and 20 percent on her entire body."
"I can't dream anymore, we are better separated than together; both struggling unstoppable for our dreams."
"Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above."
"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
"Women are so caring, kindhearted and soft creatures; I wonder how one could harm or hurt them for any reason."
"To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things."
"Every relationship is a cost benefit calculation, either it is material or spiritual."
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