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Quotes by Afghan Authors
"In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst."
"He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds."
"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."
"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."
"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''."
"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."
"Love yourself, you won't regret it ever."
"Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one."
"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 wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child."
"But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
"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."
"Yesterday, today, tomorrow and maybe forever, living and leaving without you."
"Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread."
"We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity."
"Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can't raise my voice you can't raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists."
"A beautiful woman always has her own place in everyman's heart."
"They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul."
"Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it."
"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."
"There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry."
"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."
"For you, a thousand times over!"
"We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others, while we act as evils."
"Nothing is more important than living an important life."
"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."
"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."
"Lovers are like kids, they don't stop until they get what they want."
"Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth."
"I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again."
"When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father."
"A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought in making you."
“About clichés. Avoid them like the plague.”
"And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last."
"These random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."
"You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel."
"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."
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