“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
Source: The Kite Runner
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Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Laila, p. 395
Variant: Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“For you, a thousand times over.”
(2) - Hassan, Amir
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”
Baba (115)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Context: Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“There is a way to be good again.”
(2) - Rahim Khan
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)