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Quotes by Afghan Authors


"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."


"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."

"Women are so caring, kindhearted and soft creatures; I wonder how one could harm or hurt them for any reason."

"Don't forgive people until they understand their mistakes."

"Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dating a misogynist."

"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 was good at being a doctor my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege."


"Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!"

"There is a lot to learn about love and positions."

"Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the flowers with heavy soot, Touching the grasses, climbing the horses, swinging the girlsIt is joyful, jolly like the flying. Swimming in the rivers, tearing the clothes and burning the shoes Angel of the nature; counting the grasses, touching the flower, teasing the birds."

"I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered."

"If our relationships are not all about sex, then we must not make homosexuality a matter of concern."

"Yesterday, today, tomorrow and maybe forever, living and leaving without you."

"I can't dream anymore, we are better separated than together; both struggling unstoppable for our dreams."

"I haven't seen angels, but I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are."


"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 want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin."


"To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things."

"Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it."

"God had conceived humans' heterosexuals, until they start making initiatives."

"Nothing is more important than living an important life."

"We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity."

"We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others, while we act as evils."

"There are only do and don't, can or can't is just an excuse."

"There are a lot of things in life other than having sex, but none of them worth wasting a minute."

"Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve."

"You can either choose a beautiful to fuck, which everyone fucks, or choose to fuck an ugly one, which no one fucks."


"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."

"I can't blame you!You really have no idea, how important you are How elegant you look and how sweet is your smile Everyone can smell you, from thousands kilometers awayThey can feel like the hungry wolvesHow delicious you are And they can see you from far planets Mars and Jupiter Like the owls with big eyes They know you are not human Because no one have seen a creature With such beauty and prettiness I haven't seen angels But I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are Even beauty by nature has its limits But I have to confess there is no limit in yours."


"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."


"I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life."

"Heterosexuality is the traditional way of expressing love and romance; the act of enjoyment between opposite sexes. It is not only for the purpose of enjoyment and pleasure, but also the human general survival. Whilst homosexuality is the freedom of enjoyment and pleasure from any means and ends."

"Once our family was very small and we used to say, ''our planet has enough resources to feed all of us'' but today, we are not that family and it is a burden on our planet to feed us. We have to reconsider our views and confess ''our planet has not enough resources to feed all of us anymore''."

"It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me, it is your simplicity and being you."
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