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Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns

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  • Ranti Fadilahhas quoted4 days ago
    And, if it did, Laila’s dreams were suffused with fire and detached limbs and the moaning of the wounded.
  • Ranti Fadilahhas quoted4 days ago
    Then the blast, blissfully elsewhere, followed by an expulsion of breath and the knowledge that they had been spared for now while somewhere else, amid cries and choking clouds of smoke, there was a scrambling, a bare-handed frenzy of digging, of pulling from the debris, what remained of a sister, a brother, a grandchild.
  • Lunahas quoted4 months ago
    One last time, Mariam did as she was told.
  • Lunahas quoted6 months ago
    But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her.
  • Lunahas quoted6 months ago
    That night, it was blessing enough to be beside him. It was blessing enough to know that he was here, to feel the warmth of him next to her, to lie with him, their heads touching, his right hand laced in her left
  • Lunahas quoted6 months ago
    A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment- There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
  • Lunahas quoted6 months ago
    But when it came to fathers, Mariam had no assurances to give.
  • Lunahas quoted6 months ago
    all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
  • Lunahas quoted6 months ago
    Mammy's hand floated up to her chest, tapped there. "Inhere. What's inhere. " Then it fell flaccid. "You just don't know."
  • Lunahas quoted6 months ago
    As a reminder of how women like us suffer,she'd said.How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.
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