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and i cried again 👍🏻

this book is breaking my heart into a million pieces 💔

"None of us ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign ands to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born. Huddled together in the dining room and waiting tor the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. Our way of life."

"By the time we know ourselves, we are already. That is the problem of childhood. It takes you a couple of years to grow up, to be conscious, to make decisions, and by then it's already too late, it's just a race against those fateful years."

"You see, I came from a place where a bag could never have power, where only violence spoke. And suddenly I had something that others wanted to possess, I was a woman who others wanted to embody.
Well, it was just a bag, let's not exaggerate. But sometimes the smallest detail is a portal into another world."

"It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over, that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed."

she really just did... that 🧍🏻‍♀️