Quotes on Amir

There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.