Firdaus remembers nothing about her mother except that she loved her, and that her eyes seem to watch over Firdaus when she was a small child. Whenever Firdaus feels love for another person, their eyes reflect the same quality as her mother’s eyes, appearing as if light pours out of them. Despite Firdaus’s affection for her mother, she is also the person who coordinates Firdaus’s circumcision as a young girl.
Firdaus’s Mother Quotes in Woman at Point Zero
The Woman at Point Zero quotes below are all either spoken by Firdaus’s Mother or refer to Firdaus’s Mother. 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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All I can remember are two rings of intense white surrounded by two circles of intense black. I only had to look into them for the white to become whiter and the black even blacker, as though sunlight was pouring into them from some magical source neither on earth, nor in the sky.
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Firdaus’s Mother Quotes in Woman at Point Zero
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All I can remember are two rings of intense white surrounded by two circles of intense black. I only had to look into them for the white to become whiter and the black even blacker, as though sunlight was pouring into them from some magical source neither on earth, nor in the sky.
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