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- I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of…
- All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.
- Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.…
- It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing.…
- Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying…
- there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This…
- Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
- sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is…
- But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with…
- And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he…
- Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan,…
- People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.
- Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.
- Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it…
- 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…
- In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out…
- I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
- I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t…
- She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see…
- She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is…
- At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it…
- Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive,…
- It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing…
- Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same…
- After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle