“Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
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