There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

Blood is a powerful thing

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I can’t wait to see how it ends.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

some stories don't need telling