He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor
He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.
For you, a thousand times over(Bareh tu hazar dafa)
Every woman needed a husband. Even if he did silence the song in her.
Es ist besser von der Wahrheit verletzt als mit einer Lüge getröstet zu werden.
Do you even know how strong God has made you? she said. How strong and good He has made you?
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of...
A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés go...
She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up into the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke silentl...
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
يرغمون الأولاد على الإنضمام الى المجاهدين فى وضح النهار وتحت تهديد السلاح، يسحبونهم من الشوارع. وعندما يمسكهم جنود ميليشيا معادية يعذبونهم بالكهرباء وينتزعون خصيّهم بالكماشة. يجبرونهم على أن يقودونهم...
ما أغنى هذه الأكاذيب ،،رجل غنيّ يخبر أكاذيب غنيّة ،،!
العدو الوحيد الذى لاتستطيع أفغانستان هزيمته هو نفسها
إن القصص كالقطارات المتحركة، لا يهم أبداً من أين تركبها، لأنك ستصل غايتك عاجلاً أم آجلاً علي متنها
¿Cuánto tiempo? - me preguntó Sohrab.-No lo sé. Un poco.Sohrab se encogió de hombros y sonrió, una sonrisa más ancha aquella vez.-No me importa. Puedo esperar. Es como las manzanas verdes.-¿Las manzan...
Who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.
Lili lili birdbathsitting on a dirtpath