“But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
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