Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything
My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last.
Mariam wondered how so many women could suffer the same miserable luck, to have married, all of them, such dreadful men.
Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman.
Kažu, pronađi smisao u životu i proživi ga. Ali, ponekad, shvatiš da ti je život imao smisao tek kad ga proživiš, i to najvjerovatnije onaj koga nisi bio ni svjestan.
It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
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.
I welcome you to my home as my son, as the husband of my daughter who is the noor of my eye. Your pain will be our pain, your joy our joy. I hope that you will come to see your Khala and Jamila and me...
I just think these people, everything they've been through, we should respect them... By 'we', I mean people like Timur and me. The lucky ones, the ones who weren't here when the place was getting bom...
I guess some stories do not need telling.
I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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
Every woman needed a husband. Even if he did silence the song in her.
And I wrote you.Volumes.Volumes.
After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.
I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, p...
Father said all good things in life were fragile and easily lost—he
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.
They say, find a purpose in life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfi...