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Quotes by Afghan Authors
"Sad stories make good books."
"I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin."
"Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread."
"I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope you can do the same. Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if you wish. But most important, forgive yourself."
"Relationships for women are more than taking off the clothes and wearing them back. It is about attachment of emotions, and feelings, but on the other hand, men are like fast and furious."
"If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork."
"She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion."
"A religious woman is a slave that advocates the slavery."
"I stay neutral with homosexuality, I neither support nor condemn it. But if people are happy with it we must not interfere."
"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."
"I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child."
"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."
"Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it."
"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''."
"Love yourself, you won't regret it ever."
"But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
"We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity."
"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."
"Yesterday, today, tomorrow and maybe forever, living and leaving without you."
"They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul."
"Our world needs brutality and cruelty to sustain its equality and justice. Without it, handsome guys and beautiful ladies will fuck everyone they want. And we all ugly people will wait holding our dicks in our hands."
"Nothing is more important than living an important life."
"We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others, while we act as evils."
"A beautiful woman always has her own place in everyman's heart."
"For you, a thousand times over!"
"It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me, it is your simplicity and being you."
"I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories."
"Respect is a mutual interest, your gains depend on your losses."
"She was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back.She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother."
"Lovers are like kids, they don't stop until they get what they want."
"There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry."
"When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father."
"These random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."
"Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed."
"We are all alone, the difference is someone of us in the bed and some of us on the street."
"In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I've had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I wrote 'The Kite Runner.' I realise there is only a limited number of things I can do."
"Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be."
"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
"Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself."
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