Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

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Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.

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If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head

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Women have always had it hard in this country, but they're probably more free now, under the communists, and have more rights than they've ever had before.

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She held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn't breathe, God would grant her another day

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I'll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I'll have one of my fits. You'll see, I'll swallow my tongue and die. Don't leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I'll die if you go.

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Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.

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Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.

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I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you'd live to be a hundred years old. I didn't know. I didn't know that you were ashamed of me.

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