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Quotes by Afghan Authors
"Sex before love is like a bandage before a wound."
"I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing."
"Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child."
"Like a new creature, maybe an angel, you have shocked everyone with such beauty."
"Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one."
"Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true."
"Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro."
"We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters."
"We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them."
"When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love, only few will understand that it is the end of our past."
"People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new."
"Winning is a choice, but losing is an option."
"A real man does not beg forgiveness but earn it."
"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."
"Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse."
"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."
"Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere."
"I never wanted to be alone, but I always opted for loneliness. I am an emotional, sensitive and expressive creature. I cannot detach my feelings, never could I control. I fall in love and I can be easily broken."
"They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him."
"Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another."
"If we deny climate change and don't care about environmental degradation, we are no more than those people who are willing to be stupid because someone else was stupid in the past."
"If you weren't held responsible for your mistakes, you weren't making."
"A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion."
"Love is the means, but sex is the destination."
"I do not need your sympathy or condolence; if I am an atheist, there are reasons for that and those reasons are thoughtful, unselfish and conscious."
"There are moments in life that one certainly believes he is alive."
"If we are really committed, we better get start taking care of our shit."
"If you can't celebrate your success, appreciate your failure. Since life is all about celebration and appreciation."
"If you are waiting to gain power to do something, then there is no difference between you and an unborn child."
"The elements of love, devotion, loyalty I have found in the words, never found in humans. That is why I never truly loved."
"When you smile, I become unconscious and I cannot open my eyes. Where is the justice!"
"Everyone loves to walk in the footprints of successful people, even without understanding whom footprints they walk in."
"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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