You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
Khaled HosseiniLook at me, Mariam.'
Reluctantly, Mariam did.
Nana said, 'Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.
When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?
Khaled HosseiniI looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Khaled HosseiniTags: patriotism afghanistan kabul
Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine.
Held for a moment.
Flew away.
Laila imagines she sees little Mariam there in the hut as a woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but SHAPED by by the turbulence that washes over her.
Khaled HosseiniBetter to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Khaled HosseiniIt's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.
Khaled HosseiniSilence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
Khaled HosseiniTags: life
Bareh tu hazar dafa!
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