I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are …”

“Give sustenance, Allah.Give sustenance to me.”

“There is a way to be good againFor you, a thousand times overNot a word passes …”

“Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.”