The Orphans of Kashmir Quotes

“Sometimes, it’s not our choices that turn us into who we are. Sometimes, it’s fate. Circumstance. Sometimes, we are pricked by so many thorns that we forget the fact that everyone else is traveling down the same thorn-ridden path.”
― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir

“People say that Kashmir was crafted by God’s own hand. He molded the high mountains and hills that stretch as far as the eye can see, purified the crystal blue rivers and lakes, and painted the grass with His brush. He’s kept its beauty fresh ever since, a slice of heaven on earth.

I don’t believe that. I think God forgot about us a long time ago. The aesthetic countryside is nothing but a facade, an illusion. Underneath the land’s mirage of beauty lies the truth, and this truth is the one thing the people of Kashmir understand above all else: suffering.”
― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir

“We are the sum of our deeds, and that is the end of it.”
― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir

“I’d put myself in Hell for eternity if it let you be in Paradise for a day.”
― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir

“We truly are ripples on the lake. However, unlike the water’s ripples, the ripples of life don’t end in death. They carry on in everyone we touch, even if we can’t see it. They echo for eternity, and, in that way, we truly are immortal.”
― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir

“A death is like a ripple on the lake, lasting much longer than the impact that created it.”
― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir

“In the shadows of the village, in the dark spots where nobody sees us, we steal each other away from the world.”
― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir