In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Michael Bealmear is a philanthropist, and he has become interested in the issue of refugees, and he proposed that we do an event in his community, where we could dedicate an entire evening focused on the global refugee crisis, focused primarily on Afghanistan.

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.

Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.