{"author":"Nadia Hashimi","author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"It felt good to sit around and agree, to have a common enemy and a shared struggle. It felt good to be understood.","author":"Nadia Hashimi","tags":["agreement","understand"],"id":793,"author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi"},{"text":"To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.","author":"Nadia Hashimi","tags":["family"],"id":4699,"author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nadia Hashimi","tags":["journey"],"id":17417,"author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi"},{"text":"What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.","author":"Nadia Hashimi","tags":["conflict","peace","war"],"id":75674,"author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nadia Hashimi","tags":["burqa","child","difficult","family","samina","shekiba","subjugation"],"id":92433,"author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi"},{"text":"That’s what being a mother is, isn’t it? Waiting for a rounded belly to tighten in readiness; listening for the sound of hunger in the moonlit hours; hearing an eager voice call even in the camouflage of traffic, loud music, and whirring machines. It’s looking at every door, every phone, and every approaching silhouette and feeling that slight lift, that tickle of opportunity to be again—mother.","author":"Nadia Hashimi","tags":["f","fa","mother","mothers","waiting"],"id":139423,"author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nadia Hashimi","tags":["forgiveness","mom","mother"],"id":147632,"author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nadia Hashimi","tags":["cultural-differences","psychology-today","storytelling"],"id":160726,"author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nadia Hashimi","tags":["death","marriage","togetherness"],"id":171365,"author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi"},{"text":"Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?","author":"Nadia Hashimi","tags":["f","fa","intuition","mother-s-intuition"],"id":176872,"author_id":"Nadia+Hashimi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}