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1 " So the man was sad! Of course, he was in mourning. He had just lost his wife, what — a few months ago? What a luxury, she thought enviously, that he could mourn his loss like this when her husband had disappeared. She would have liked to give up on life and cry until she was empty of tears; instead she had to brave a refugee camp, a new country, and now a whole new language. "
― Amulya Malladi , The Sound of Language
2 " In the early 1990s, at the beginning of the Taliban regime, there had been a sort of relief that there was some law and order in the country, but that quickly turned bitter when the shariah was enforced. "
3 " For refugees everywhere — may you find home "
4 " Raihana didn’t know what to say to a man who was not her husband or relative. How could Kabir and Layla ask her to speak to this stranger? What did they want out of her? And then it struck her "
5 " You are here,” she said. “Live here, not in the past in a country that you can’t go back to. "
6 " But I don’t know these Muslim people. They seem ... what if she brings a bomb inside the house? What if she blows up my house like all those suicide bombers in Israel?” he demanded. "
