Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.

A Thousand Splendid Suns (ed. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009) - ISBN: 9781408803738