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“Tariq: For you, Laila, I'd go all over the world”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

109
The Kite Runner (2003)

“But that's what I'm saying to you… That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

(319) Amir
The Kite Runner (2003)

“Tariq (meeting Laila after ten years): It's good to see you, Laila.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“Hasina: That's because you have a beard, my dear.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“How could I of all people, chastise someone for their past?”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Amir
The Kite Runner (2003)

“Mariam is never very far, she is here, in these walls they've repainted, in the trees they've planted, in the blankets that keep the children warm, in these pillows and books and pencils. She is in the children's laughter. She is in the verses Aziza recites and in the prayers she mutters when she bows westward. But, mostly, Miriam is in Laila's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), Chapter, 51.

“You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is.. God help him.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

(288) Amir
The Kite Runner (2003)

“Hassan slumps to the asphalt, his life of unrequited loyalty drifting from him like the windblown kites he used to chase.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner (2003)

“Mariam: I can't beleive what you are now, if you were a Benz before.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“It does not frighten me to leave this life that my only son left five years ago, this life that insists we bear sorrow upon sorrow long after we can bear no more. No, I believe I shall gladly take my leave when the time comes. What frightens me, hamshira, is the day God summons me before him and asks, Why did you not do as I said, Mullah? Why did you not obey my laws? How shall I explain myself to him, hamshira? What will be my defense for not heeding His commands? All I can do, all any of us can do, in the time we are granted, is to go on abiding by the laws He has set for us. The clearer I see my end, hamsira, the nearer I am to my day of reckoning, the more determined I grow to carry out His word. However painful it may prove.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Talib Judge, p. 366
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“It wasn't easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat. But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could tolerate when she was afraid. And Mariam was afraid.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Mariam, p. 98
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn't I? The least I could have done was to have the decency to have turned out a little more like him.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Amir (19)
The Kite Runner (2003)

“Giti: Nobody ever came for my hand.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? … He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

56
The Kite Runner (2003)

“I know you're still young, but I want you to understand and learn this now, he said. 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. -Babi”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“Women have always had it hard in this country, Laila, but they're probably more free now, under the communists, and have more rights than they've ever had before.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Babi
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“Hassan's not going anywhere. He's staying right here with us, where he belongs. This is his home and we're his family. Don't you ever ask me that question again!”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Baba (79-80)
The Kite Runner (2003)

“Jalil: I think you look like a queen.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)