In the middle of the night, when Laila woke up thirsty, she found their hands still clamped together, in the white-knuckle, anxious way of children clutching balloon strings.
If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chanc...
I watched Baba's car pull away from the curb, taking with it the person whose first spoken word had been my name.
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 did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, g...
لم يكن من السهل أن تتحمل الطريقة التي يتكلم بها معها، احتقاره لها، إهاناته وسخريته منها.. أن يمر بجانبها كأنها لا شيء أو كأنها قطة في المنزل .. لكن بعد أربع سنوات من الزواج، رأت مريم بوضوح كم يمكن لام...
قلب الرجل مثير للأسي
ان ما يحدث في أيام قليلة وأحيانا يوم واحد حتي, يستطيع تغيير اتجاه المرء كل حياته.
You know.Know what?That I only have eyes for you.
You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.
When you kill a man, you steal a life, Baba said. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, yo...
Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces,she could not help but wish for more of it. She wishe...
This is why the Holy Koran forbids sharab. Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk. So it does.
There's no monster...just a beautiful day.
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
There is a way to be good again...
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy.
That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone locked their doors, turned out the lights, turn...
Sospecho que, en el fondo, lo que todos esperamos, contra todo pronóstico, es que nos suceda algo extraordinario.
She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.