you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?