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Quotes by Afghan Authors
"Boys find love in pants and girls find in pockets."
"To be acknowledged that we do not believe in their misleading notion and fallacy, today, tomorrow and forever even if it costs us our life. They have suffocated people for hundreds of years and if we don't stop them today no one else would do it tomorrow."
"Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives."
"A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it."
"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."
"The most precious gift you can ever give to a young woman is, appreciating and understanding her true feelings."
"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."
"They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land."
"Why shan't I cheat when every girl has a different taste?"
"I can't simulate you with moon, moon is fully naked and you are fully clothed."
"Who rebels with mathematics?"
"Be ready for every moment, you don't know which check is the checkmate."
"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."
"James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?"
"Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above."
"The moon is always holding the stars, you must do the same."
"Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?"
"Don't forgive people until they understand their mistakes."
"She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me."
"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."
"Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly."
"I like to see you fully naked like the complete moon."
"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."
"All the nightmares will come true, whether you try or not, but for your dreams to come true, you have to do everything."
"It does not mean you are not awesome, if no one ever appreciates your beauty. But I can see that, in your juicy eyes, funny smiles and innocent face. And I am telling you now; you are exceptionally beautiful and awesome."
"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."
"I can't dream anymore, we are better separated than together; both struggling unstoppable for our dreams."
"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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