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

You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something.

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.