“She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.”

— Khaled Hosseini , book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Mariam, p. 370
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

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