But Mariam hardly noticed, hardly cared...the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice, Hope, a treacherous illusion.
Khaled HosseiniSome days, I listen to that clock ticking in the hallway. Then I think of all the ticks, all the minutes, all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without you. And I can’t breathe then, like someone’s stepping on my heart. I get so weak. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.
Khaled HosseiniLaila remembered how Mammy had dropped to the ground, how she’d screamed, torn at her hair. But Laila couldn’t even manage that. She could hardly move. She could hardly move a muscle.
She sat on the chair instead, hands limp in her lap, eyes staring at nothing, and let her mind fly on. She let it fly on until it found the place, the good and safe place, where the barley fields were green, where the water ran clear and the cottonwood seeds danced by the thousands in the air; where Babi was reading a book beneath an acacia and Tariq was napping with his hands laced across his chest, and where she could dip her feet in the stream and dream good dreams beneath the watchful gaze of gods of ancient, sun-bleached rock.
Tag: death-of-a-loved-one
You’re not going to cry, are you?
- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.
with a thug of a string, i'd cut loose my pain, my longing...
Khaled HosseiniThe Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules.
Khaled Hosseiniان ما يحدث في أيام قليلة وأحيانا يوم واحد حتي, يستطيع تغيير اتجاه المرء كل حياته.
Khaled HosseiniThe Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
Khaled HosseiniTag: tea
Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn’t look forced. And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too
Khaled HosseiniTag: the-kite-runner khaled-hosseini
lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.
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