24 quotes found
“It's time to undo Rahim.”
“But war had a taming effect”
“Cornered mothers pray for strange things.”
“Some would call that lucky but lucky is relative”
“The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.”
“Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?”
“We were pressed against each other, a husband and wife bound together not by marriage, but by the harmony of our hearts. Death could not undo us, I'd learned. My hamsar was with me still. He would ...”
“What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.”
“To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.”
“Do as you must -- you are not a child. But understand that there are many people willing to make your life more difficult. It is up to you to find a way to make things easier for yourself.”
“An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.”
“He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.”
“Children are touched by heaventheir every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learne...”
“Children always forgive their mothers. That's the way God's designed them. He gives them two arms, two legs, and a heart that will cry 'mother' until the day it stops beating.”
“What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.”
“As children inch their way into adolescence, the parent changes. He is an authority, a source of answers, and a chastising voice. Depending on the day, he may be resented, emulated, questioned, or ...”
“We all cross a hundred peaks to get even this far. And there will be more before we each make it to whatever God has fated for us.”
“Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of ...”
“Thats what being a mother is, isnt it? Waiting for a rounded belly to tighten in readiness; listening for the sound of hunger in the moonlit hours; hearing an eager voice call even in the camouflag...”
“Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.”
