12 quotes found
“On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step”
“Pull a thread here and youll find its attached to the rest of the world.”
“Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.”
“Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.”
“All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.”
“The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.”
“How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.”
“Even the air of this country has a story to tell about warfare. It is possible here to lift a piece of bread from a plate and following it back to its origins, collect a dozen stories concerning wa...”
“But whatever any of them thought one thing was always certain: even though they suffered and had to struggle at times to bring meaning and even the most basic dignity into their existence and even ...”
“He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young in order to...”
“A daughter, a wife, a grandson,' You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly of the other r...”
“The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.”
