Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns Quotes
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.
The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.
To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things.
Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.
Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one.
It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.
she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back.She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But they are things that, well, you just have to see and feel. p.147
She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.
A society has no chance of success if it's women are uneducated.
Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.