Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 4, 1965
It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out..
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 pers….
A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later..
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it..
She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. She….
As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling..
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of br….
And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding….
The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one..
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us..
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin an….
One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. M….
A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything..
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors..
Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything.
it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place..
Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant..
Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her..
America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let t….
She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , an….
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..