A House Without Windows
Nadia Hashimi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“What a burden it is to be born a woman.”
“..."there's a special kind of hurt in learning that your parents are not the angels or saviors you wish them to be...”
“Sometimes it's hard to figure out if you are crazy or if it is the world around you that's insane. Sometimes if you don't lose your mind a little bit, there's no way to survive. You're not broken my daughter, that's what you have to remember.”
“so often reason did not seem to work with people, which was precisely why she’d spent a lifetime getting her point across by other means.”
“Zeba-jan, there’s a special kind of hurt in learning that your parents are not the angels or saviors you wish them to be”
“It seemed the truth would be of little benefit. Not to people who deemed her testimony only the fraction of a man's. In a flicker of despondency, the words came to her: What good is a woman's telling of truth when nothing she says will be taken as proof”
“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”
“Time passes differently through a woman’s body. We are haunted by all the hours of yesterday and teased by a few moments of tomorrow. That is how we live—torn between what has already happened and what is yet to come.”
“Now he survived only by believing that the man he was for minutes at a time could make up for the man he was the rest of the hours.”
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Book Keywords:
contemporary-fiction, mom, love, forgiveness, gulnaz, true, life, mother
