The Language of Secrets Quotes

“Something could be beautiful, humane, encompassing. Or it could be made ugly. And maybe that was the lesson. We bring to a tradition what is already within ourselves, however our moral compass is designed, whatever our ethical training is. And then the tradition speaks.”
― Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Language of Secrets

“Of the future prospects of an illiterate society flush with weapons and drugs and rife with the divisions the Soviet occupation had suppressed...Afghanistan's tribal past, its uncertain future, with decades of war still to come. The oft-named graveyard of empires, with many of its dead yet to be counted.”
― Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Language of Secrets

“The snowfall outside was a white wall of noiseless fury, the symmetry of the stars eclipsed by a cataract of quiet.”
― Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Language of Secrets

“The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me.”
― Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Language of Secrets