Top 65 Nadia Hashimi Quotes

#1. Poor girl. She ran out from under a leaking roof and sat in the rain.

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#2. Children are touched by heaven - their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children

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#3. Grudges don't die - people do.

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#4. Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted- every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us.

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#5. Some truths need to be said out loud before they can be believed

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#6. We were pressed against each other, a husband and wife bound together not by marriage, but by the harmony of our hearts. Death could not undo us, I'd learned. My hamsar was with me still. He would watch over us, my beloved husband, as we made our way into tomorrow.

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#7. There could be nothing worse than choosing between two children. Ask me to choose between my right arm and my left and I will give you one. But ask me to choose between two of my children and my heart shatters into a thousand pieces.

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#8. If you wait to dance on the moon, you may never dance at all.

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#9. Children always forgive their mothers. That's the way God's designed them. He gives them two arms, two legs, and a heart that will cry 'mother' until the day it stops beating.

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#10. Love grows wildest in the gardens of hardship.

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#11. That is the problem with gifts, Madar-jan. They are always given away.

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#12. Sometimes the storm in a person's mind raged too strongly.

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#13. On education - Every bit does some good. I'm lucky I know how to read. It's a candle in a dark room. What I don't know, I can find out for myself. It's easier to fool someone who can't figure things out on his own.

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#14. We are too shortsighted to rejoice in the moments that deserve it.

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#15. But trying to conjure my mother was like trying to hum a song I'd never heard.

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#16. People who are beset by tragedy once and twice are sure to grieve again. Fate finds it easier to retrace its treads.

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#17. What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.

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#18. He did not live in fear of God because, he reasoned, a merciful God would not create us only to punish us for trivial earthly matters.

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#19. Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a telescope.

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#20. But I was afraid. Maybe he would believe me, take my word that the guards had let me go. That Badriya had said it was all right. That I did nothing inappropriate or shameful at the resource center. Impossible. We

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#21. The person who doesn't appreciate the apple, doesn't appreciate the orchard.

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#22. The hell with naseeb. Naseeb is what people blame for every thing they can't fix.

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#23. Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.

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#24. We all cross a hundred peaks to get even this far. And there will be more before we each make it to whatever God has fated for us.

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#25. What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.

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#26. But war had a taming effect

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#27. But being without a mother is like being stripped naked and thrown into the snow.

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#28. Some would call that lucky but lucky is relative

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#29. But her personality made her glow. People looked at her and couldn't help but smile.

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#30. It's time to undo Rahim.

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#31. Why do we keep the Qur'an all the way up there, Madar-jan? It is so hard to reach it there! Because nothing is above the Qur'an. This is how we show our respect for the word of Allah.

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#32. Ghafoor came from a modest family in a nearby village and had been given to the palace in exchange for a cow.

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#33. Funny, isn't it? We hear the same name and while they see dark, I see light.

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#34. The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

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#35. He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.

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#36. It was surprising how many days and years mattered not at all. His story, the heart of him, was really made up of only a handful of seconds or minutes. The rest was empty road, an expanse that only prolonged the travel from one point to another.

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#37. It's never easy to leave one's home, especially when there are only closed doors ahead of you.

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#38. That was her escape, I realized. Where her body couldn't take her, her mind went.

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#39. Do as you must -- you are not a child. But understand that there are many people willing to make your life more difficult. It is up to you to find a way to make things easier for yourself.

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#40. Truths can be wholly contradictory, the blackest black and the whitest white at the same time.

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#41. When things are rough, people look for an escape. A way out. Sometimes it's hard to find the right way.

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#42. It felt good to sit around and agree, to have a common enemy and a shared struggle. It felt good to be understood.

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#43. household. Shekiba slowly

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#44. Life has typhoons. They come and turn everything upside down. But you still have to standup because the next storm may be around the corner.

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#45. ..."there's a special kind of hurt in learning that your parents are not the angels or saviors you wish them to be...

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#46. There was nothing but a single breath between them and Naeem. A single devastating moment could return any of them to the dust from which they came. Naeem was close enough to touch and yet irrevocably unreachable.

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#47. The human spirit, you know what they say about the human spirit? Is is harder than a rock and more delicate than a flower petal.

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#48. A conversation began to take shape between us. A conversation that happened in unspoken words, in false words, in knowing glances.

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#49. Fate will make things right in the end, though only after the work has been done, the tears have been shed and the sleepless nights have been endured.

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#50. There are truths and lies and there are things in between, murky waters where light gets bent and broken.

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#51. Even righteousness is an ambiguous thing.

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#52. I was pretty sure everyone was praying for different things. I wondered how Allah would sort it all out.

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#53. The person most likely to drown in the river is the one who believes he can swim.

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#54. Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?

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#55. Cornered mothers pray for strange things.

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#56. Refugees didn't just escape a place. They had to escape a thousand memories until they'd put enough time and distance between them and their misery to wake to a better day.

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#57. To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.

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#58. An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.

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#59. Only as an adult can a child imagine his parent as a whole person, as a husband, a brother, or a son. Only then can a child see how his parent fits into the world beyond four walls.

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#60. In the darkness, when you cannot see the ground under your feet and when your fingers touch nothing but night, you are not alone. I will stay with you as moonlight stays on water.

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#61. Some things are clearer from a distance.

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#62. It's best not to depend on the gray haired. We're too close to God to rely on,

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#63. But times change. Everything changes. Birds fly away, one by one.

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#64. He tried to work alongside his father as a carpenter but a man who had been taught only to destroy found it hard to create.

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#65. There were things they said out loud to each other, things they whispered with a twitch of the face, and things that were stoically hidden.

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