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“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies. A child, a book, a painting, a wall built... Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree, or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before into something that’s like you after you take your hands away”

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”

-“If only they could’ve taken her mind along to the dry cleaners and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleaned it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only…”

-“We never ask questions, or most don’t: they just just run the answers at you, Bing, Bing, Bing…”

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Lion in the morning and two minutes a day strategies 🦁🧘🏼‍♀️

Chapter 7 “A patch of sky, frozen in a cloudy retina, reflected in a puddle on the ground. Yoo-hoo. Being and nothingness”.

Every time I see a squirrel irl or online I think of Ulysses now 🐿️

Chapters 9, 10, 11, + 12. Radio Mullah, singing dancing and movies were haram, buddha and history being taken away, women allowed to be vocal only when it suits the taliban, death of benazir, so many bombings esp at schools, malala interviews, threats, and murders.

Chapters 7+8 Opposition to women attending the school, shia vs sunni, MMA attacks, 7.6 earthquake, and blaming the disaster on women’s freedom.

Chapter 6 “Heebiejeebieville”.

Chapters 5+6 Pashtuneali revenge, Sanju’s pencil, Rubbish mountain and scavenger children, free seats at school, and U.S and Pakistan relations prior and post 9/11.

Chapters 3+4. The first female prime minister in the islamic world: Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan. Talked of the rocky founding of her fathers school, her time visiting family and how she was thought to be modern. Women’s roles like Swara: the custom of giving a girl to another family in order to end a feud.

Growing up in the Swat Valley, meaning of her name, her fathers stutter, Pashtun culture, and a brief overview of the history of Pakistan and its power shifts.