The person most likely to drown in the river is the one…

“[My father,] A man who had been taught only to destroy found it hard to create.”

— Nadia Hashimi

“As children inch their way into adolescence, the parent changes. He is an authority, a source of answers, and a chastising voice. Depending on…

— Nadia Hashimi

“Many of our decisions were not decisions at all. We were herded into one choice or another, to put it gently.”

— Nadia Hashimi

“Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell”

— Nadia Hashimi

“..."there's a special kind of hurt in learning that your parents are not the angels or saviors you wish them to be...”

— Nadia Hashimi

“In the darkness, when you cannot see the ground under your feet and when your fingers touch nothing but night, you are not alone.…

— Nadia Hashimi

“People have different ways of saying good-bye, especially when it is forever. A”

— Nadia Hashimi

“Afghanistan is a land of widows and widowers, orphans and the missings. Missing a right leg, a left hand, a child,or a mother. Everyone…

— Nadia Hashimi

“What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along…

— Nadia Hashimi

“I am from Afghanistan. I do not want to be refugee in Turkey or Greece. I am alone. I am fifteen.”

— Nadia Hashimi

“yet. Even here, in this open room with Afghan”

— Nadia Hashimi

“This life is difficult. We lose fathers, brothers, mothers, songbirds and pieces of ourselves. Whips strike the innocent, honors go to the guilty, and…

— Nadia Hashimi

“Children always forgive their mothers. That's the way God's designed them. He gives them two arms, two legs, and a heart that will cry…

— Nadia Hashimi

“What a burden it is to be born a woman.”

— Nadia Hashimi