When the Moon is Low Quotes

“In the darkness, when you cannot see the ground under your feet and when your fingers touch nothing but night, you are not alone. I will stay with you as moonlight stays on water.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“Refugees didn’t just escape a place. They had to escape a thousand memories until they’d put enough time and distance between them and their misery to wake to a better day.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“Grudges don’t die—people do.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon Is Low

“Love grows wildest in the gardens of hardship.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon Is Low

“Some things are clearer from a distance.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“It's never easy to leave one's home, especially when there are only closed doors ahead of you.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“Only as an adult can a child imagine his parent as a whole person, as a husband, a brother, or a son. Only then can a child see how his parent fits into the world beyond four walls.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon Is Low

“We are too shortsighted to rejoice in the moments that deserve it.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon Is Low

“Sometimes the storm in a person's mind raged too strongly.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“But being without a mother is like being stripped naked and thrown into the snow.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon Is Low

“It takes a lifetime to learn your parents. For children, parents are larger than life. They are strong arms that carry little ones, warm laps for sleepy heads, sources of food and wisdom. It’s as if parents were born on the same day as their children, having not existed a moment before. As children inch their way into adolescence, the parent changes. He is an authority, a source of answers, and a chastising voice. Depending on the day, he may be resented, emulated, questioned, or defied. Only as an adult can a child imagine his parent as a whole person, as a husband, a brother, or a son. Only then can a child see how his parent fits into the world beyond four walls.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon Is Low

“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, When the Moon is Low

“Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“The person most likely to drown in the river is the one who believes he can swim.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“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.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“Even righteousness is an ambiguous thing.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted- every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“If you wait to dance on the moon, you may never dance at all.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“Cornered mothers pray for strange things.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“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, When the Moon is Low

“What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“Some truths need to be said out loud before they can be believed”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“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, When the Moon is Low

“The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“It was surprising how many days and years mattered not at all. His story, the heart of him, was really made up of only a handful of seconds or minutes. The rest was empty road, an expanse that only prolonged the travel from one point to another.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“It takes a lifetime to know your parents. For children, parents are larger than life. They are strong arms that carry little ones, warm laps for sleepy heads, sources of food and wisdom. It's as if parents were born on the same day as their children, having not existed a moment before. As children inch their way into adolescence, the parent changes. He is an authority, a source of answers, and a chastising voice. Depending on the day, he may be resented, emulated, questioned, or defied. Only as an adult can a child imagine his parent as a whole person, as a husband, a brother, or a son. Only then can a child see how his parent fits into the world beyond four walls.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“As children inch their way into adolescence, the parent changes. He is an authority, a source of answers, and a chastising voice. Depending on the day, he may be resented, emulated, questioned, or defied. Only as an adult can a child imagine his parent as a whole person, as a husband, a brother, or a son. Only then can a child see how his parent fits into the world beyond four walls.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon Is Low

“Children are touched by heaven—their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low