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“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?”
“Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.”
“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.”
“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...”
“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.”
“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...”
“Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted- every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us.”
“It felt good to sit around and agree, to have a common enemy and a shared struggle. It felt good to be understood.”
“Children are touched by heaven—their 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 learn...”
“That’s what being a mother is, isn’t 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 camoufl...”
