All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.
There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.
Her mind is a haunted house.
Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone’s life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It’s like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another’s loneliness.
This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.
As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
History is the third parent.
A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.
Nothing is an accident: it’s always someone’s fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.
There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn’t want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.
To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.
All those who love know exactly the limit they’re prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.
Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can’t.