I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.
The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind. . . as if we were God.
It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for or gone, transformed or altogether forgotten. Like time, hope can be so senseless. It can carry us up mountains or lie us in the quicksand. But like time, hope is unstoppable, inevitable, and blind. Sometimes we travel fast, hurdling towards the unknown, sometimes the unknown comes hurdling towards us while we watch time standing still.
poetry. . . is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.