“Zindagi migzara (life goes on)”

“Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know.If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's?After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis. ”

“Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).”

“Life is a train, get on board.”

“After all, life is not a Hindi movie.”

“All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.”

“Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.”