The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan

by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller

They learned about love from a distance. This is the truest love of all, when two people must wait and build up great ideas about each other until the passion becomes so unbearable and deeply rooted that they must have each other. That is how love becomes the most desirable and lasting. I wanted this love more than anything. I wanted the traditions to work for me.

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“Education is like eating,” she said. If we weren’t learning, we weren’t growing. She had high expectations for all of us.

“One cannot exist with a heart torn in half between two loves, two decisions, or two worlds, because it will eventually break in two.”

Their actions were motivated by hate. Hate is not from God. People who use religion to hate can’t love God. It is impossible.

‘This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.’”