He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.

— Nadia Hashimi

It felt good to sit around and agree, to have a common enemy and a shared struggle. It felt good to be understood.

— Nadia Hashimi

It's time to undo Rahim.

— Nadia Hashimi

Some would call that lucky but lucky is relative

— Nadia Hashimi

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.

— Nadia Hashimi

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

— Nadia Hashimi

To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.

— Nadia Hashimi

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.

— Nadia Hashimi

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 hammer was with me still. He would watch over us, my beloved husband, as we made our way into tomorrow.

— Nadia Hashimi

What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.

— Nadia Hashimi