Voirrey

“As I lay in my room, I looked back on the day with all of its colors and surprises- a day when the rich sat with the poor, the Godless with the believers, the foreigners with Afghans, the men with women, and the children with adults. It was how a perfect world might be if people didn't keep strangling one another in rules and laws and fear.”
― Andrea Busfield, Born Under a Million Shadows

“It was night when the lights woke me, the time of night when you're struck between yesterday and today and everything's so quiet and deaf with sleep there's no sign of the morning coming to get you. It was the time of night that calls for a stretch and a smile.”
― Andrea Busfield, Born Under a Million Shadows

“In fact, I couldn't help thinking that despite their height, adults were just plain unbelievably stupid: men were blowing up other men; soldiers were shooting at children; men were ignoring women they loved; the women who loved them pretended they didn't; and when I read the newspapers to Pir Hederi everyone they talked about seemed to be far more interested in rules and arguments and taking sides than the actual business of living.”
― Andrea Busfield, Born Under a Million Shadows

“Were we really so different from one another?”
― Andrea Busfield, Born Under a Million Shadows