Quotes About Strength

How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

Do you even know how strong God has made you? she said. How strong and good He has made you?

sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.

Mariam is in Laila's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

Bareh tu hazar dafa!

I think I have grown accustomed to the glass and I am terrified that when it breaks, when I am alone, I will spill out into the wide open unknown and flop around, helpless, lost,grasping for breath.

My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last.

Laila imagines she sees little Mariam there in the hut as a woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but SHAPED by by the turbulence that washes over her.

Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

Rahim, a boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

Kalau kau tidak terus-terusan melihat ke langit, kau tidak akan bertahan lama.

Seorang anak laki-laki yang tak mampu membela dirinya sendiri akan tumbuh menjadi pria yang tak mampu menghadapi masalah apapun.

Znaš li ti, uop?e, koliko te je Bog napravio jakom? Koliko jakom i dobrom te je napravio?

Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core, that neither Rasheed nor the Taliban will be able to break. something as hard and unyielding as a block of limestone. Something that, in the end, will be her undoing and Laila's salvation.

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

Katakan padanya, biar seribu peluru menembus tubuhku, aku tetap tidak akan membiarkan perilaku tidak senonohnya.

Tidak ada salahnya menjadi seorang pengecut selama kau tetap berhati-hati. Tapi bila seorang pengecut mulai melupakan siapa dirinya .... Semoga Tuhan melindunginya.

There is only one, only one skill a woman like you and me needs in life, and they don't teach it in school . . . Only one skill. And it's this: tahamul. Endure.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. Laila

Darah memiliki kekuatan, jangan pernah lupakan itu.

Seperti dalam perang mana pun, kami harus mempersiapkan diri untuk bertempur.

Blood is a powerful thing, bachem, never forget that.