

“And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how 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.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
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