With a thug of a string, i'd cut loose my pain, my longing...
Shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe first.
You? You’ve always been a tourist here, you just didn’t know it.
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.
You changed the subject.From what?The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy.You know.Know what?That I only have eyes for you.
Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.
Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which old Pashto songs were sometimes played, time stretched and contract...
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a fat...
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Mayb...
The previous year, Baba had surprised Hassan with a leather cowboy hat just like the one Clint Eastwood wore in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—which had unseated The Magnificent Seven as our favorite...
The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born.
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don’t either of you ask me for more. It’s late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us, Pari, you and I. You will need your...
Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
She understood then what Nana meant, that a harami was an unwanted thing; that she, Mariam, was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such...
She suddenly realizes that she may not know how to live without Masooma. She doesn’t know if she can. How will she bear the days when Masooma’s absence feels like a far heavier burden than her presenc...
She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could b...
Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mi...
Mendimet me arratisen instiktivisht drejt teje.