Mandy Morris’s Reviews > A Thousand Splendid Suns > Status Update

Page 355 - “In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too has had sorrows, disappointments, dreams that have been ridiculed. A woman who will be a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.”

Page 328 - “Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.”

Page 229 - “And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, Hope, a treacherous illusion.”

Page 128 - “But Laila knew that her future was no match for her brothers’ past. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death.”