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She thought of what was growing there, and happiness rushed in like a gust of wind blowing a door wide open. Her eyes watered.
“I’m going to be a mother,” she said. Then she was laughing to herself, and saying it over and over, relishing the words.
how fortunate they were, how blessed that their children had flourished in their wombs, lived to squirm in their arms and take the milk from their breasts.
Marriage can wait, education cannot. You’re a very, very bright girl. Truly, you are. You can be anything you want, Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.
In the midst of all this killing and looting, all this ugliness, it was a harmless thing to sit here beneath a tree and kiss Tariq.
“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
swooned. Her eyes watered. Her heart took flight.
