This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passionate being can, nay, will, be ours.
"Nay, Amir agha, he can't," Farid said.
Robert Nay, PhD, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Georgetown Medical School.
"How talented he is, nay, my Hazara boy!
"Nay, Agha sahib," they said in unison, smiling.
" And a bishop of the diocese visited him, but he said to himself, "Nay, I will not open that jug.
"Nay, thanks," I said, pushing past him.
" "Nay, thank you.
"Nay, sorry.
"That was your first time, nay?
Each nay I hear will bring me closer to the sound of yea.
" "Nay, thank you," ,.
"Nay, it's worse.
Other times--particularly w0hen I came home late to a sleeping house, nay husband and daughter curled around each other after drifting off during the third reading of Jane Yolen's Owl Moon-I thank about the lives we would not have had if chances or choices had brought us to a different place.
, And the passionate say, "Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread.
" "Nay, I'd rather be alone.
"Nay thank you, General Sahib.
"Nay, no harm done," Assef said.
" "You would tell me, nay?
