Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.
It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.
I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writ...
Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and s...
ذلك هو حال الناس الذين يقصدون كل ما يقولون. يعتقدون أن الآخرين يفعلون مثلهم
Слушай сега, независимо на какво те учи моллата, има само един грях. И това е кражбата. Всеки друг грях е вариант на кражбата.-Когато убиеш човек, открадваш му живота. Открадваш на жена му правото да...
I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.
Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.
Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.
The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
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 answer may be elusive, but they could be...
Sad stories make good books,
Nine-year-old Laila rose from bed, as she did most mornings, hungry for the sight of her friend Tariq. This morning, however, she knew there would be no Tariq sighting.- How long will you be gone? - S...
Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.
Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. She thought ruefully of Nana, of the sacrifices that she too had made. Nana, who could have given her away, or tossed her in a ditch s...
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime, Amir,
I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I...
He was a visionary or a fool I have found the line perilously thin myself