Of Strangers and Bees Quotes

“Handed down to each person is a kind of thread. Either you can follow that thread all the way to God—or you can tangle the thread, and stumble and strangle in the knots, and lose sight of the right direction and go astray.”
― Hamid Ismailov, Of Strangers and Bees

“But there is such a thing as inspiration, a thing that, once it appears, cannot be got rid of or chased away, until you finally give up on everything and go and get a good night's sleep.”
― Hamid Ismailov, Of Strangers and Bees

“That night, Sina walked the thin line that separates life and death, and he began to understand the meaning of what the storyteller had said: to have repentance in piety, desire in love, asceticism in the straight path, humility in faith, and perseverance in all work.”
― Hamid Ismailov, Of Strangers and Bees