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Zainab was Isma, Aneeka, and Parvaiz’s mother. Zainab and her mother-in-law (Isma’s grandmother) are the primary caretakers of all three children until both women die within a year of each other, when Isma is 21 and Aneeka and Parvaiz are 12 years old. Prior to her death, Zainab was largely resentful of the turmoil Adil brought into their family, and Isma picks up these same biases and resentments when dealing with Parvaiz’s abandonment.
Zainab Pasha Quotes in Home Fire
The Home Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Zainab Pasha or refer to Zainab Pasha. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5 – Parvaiz
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They’d returned most of the items they took, but not the pictures of Adil Pasha climbing a mountain, sitting beside a campfire, wading across a stream—sometimes alone, sometimes in the company of other men, always smiling, always with a gun slung over his shoulder or cradled in his lap. When you’re old enough, my son, his father had inscribed inside it, which made Parvaiz’s mother furious for reasons he didn't then understand.
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Or Farooq would talk and Parvaiz would listen to those stories of his father for which he’d always yearned—not a footloose boy or feckless husband but a man of courage who fought injustice, saw beyond the lie of national boundaries, kept his comrades’ spirits up through times of darkness.
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Zainab Pasha Quotes in Home Fire
The Home Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Zainab Pasha or refer to Zainab Pasha. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 5 – Parvaiz
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They’d returned most of the items they took, but not the pictures of Adil Pasha climbing a mountain, sitting beside a campfire, wading across a stream—sometimes alone, sometimes in the company of other men, always smiling, always with a gun slung over his shoulder or cradled in his lap. When you’re old enough, my son, his father had inscribed inside it, which made Parvaiz’s mother furious for reasons he didn't then understand.
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Or Farooq would talk and Parvaiz would listen to those stories of his father for which he’d always yearned—not a footloose boy or feckless husband but a man of courage who fought injustice, saw beyond the lie of national boundaries, kept his comrades’ spirits up through times of darkness.
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