Good People Quotes

“…people will always choose hope and goodness and love. And at the end of the day, aren’t those the only good things that really matter?”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“He told them all the time it wasn’t fair that they wanted her to be like a girl in Kabul when she was born and raised in America.”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“Somehow, you live. God gives you a way.”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“But I’ve been around long enough to know you need to let people find their pleasures where they can”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“This is the world, as God made it. A man is a man and a woman a woman. They are not the same. They're not seen and judged the same. Even among you people that's true. With all your talk about equality and women's rights, in this country a man is still a man and woman is a woman. Deny it night and day, but in your hearts you know it's true.”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“We see our children, daughters and sons, as the greatest of all blessings from God and as nothing less.”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“We don’t question Allah’s will. We only beseech Him to make it easier for us to endure.”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“when the other trouble came, there must have been many times when he looked back at that trouble, or what he thought was trouble, and thought that he would give half his life to have just those problems again. He must have looked back to that time and thought that he was the happiest of men then. He just didn’t know it.”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“and at the end of the month have just enough in your pocket not to die.”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“No one dies of sorrow. No one dies of loss. That's just in films. If they did, all we Afghans would have died by now. Somehow, you live, God gives you a way.”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“A girl's reputation never just hers. In it she holds the name of her whole family. Her father's name, her brother's name, her mother's and sister's names, the names of her grandfather's grandfathers. For good people, name is everything. The beginning and the end. Once my good name is lost, it's lost forever. As long as men live and have memory, my family's name is stained. Then my father in his grave is shamed and my brothers are shamed and my sons are all shamed. Their eyes are lowered in front of the whole world. My other daughters, even if they're pure themselves, are ruined all the same. Forever after, our heads will be bowed before the taunts, silent or said, of all people. The shame of it, is worth than death.”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“Everyone always said, “Oh, of course they’re happy. Who wouldn’t be with that kind of life?” But many people have money and they still dip their daily bread in blood and swallow it in grief.”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“But I don’t know what to tell you. Maybe it’s all these new drugs they do. Or the screens they park their faces in front of twenty hours a day. Maybe the tree huggers are right and it’s the chemicals the corporations put in the food. But whatever it is”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“Anyone can be a parent. If you really think about it”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“is an attempt to tell the story of not the fact but the possibility of an “honor crime,” and to tell it at a deeper level than the sensationalized narratives that so often dominate the media coverage of such cases”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“In remembering Zorah together”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“It’s a sad reality that many racial minorities in this country have a deep distrust and fear of law enforcement.”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“No one dies of sorrow. No one dies of loss. That’s just in films. If they did”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“I think we proved the naysayers wrong. Look how the community came together. People that didn’t even know Zorah. It shows that people will always choose hope and goodness and love. And at the end of the day”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“Instead she went off with someone like that”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People

“How it wasn’t like coming to a new country but to a whole new world”
― Patmeena Sabit, Good People