“ To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again. ”
But war had a taming effect
~ Nadia Hashimi
What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.
An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.
We were pressed against each other, a husband and wife bound together not by marriage, but by the harmony of our hearts. Death could not undo us, I'd learned. My hamsar was with me still. He would watch over us, my beloved husband, as we made our way into tomorrow.
