A Thousand Splendid Suns

"The world had no use for women like me."

"I have so much more to give."

"Women like us. We endure."

"I wish to be a doctor. I wish to be useful and earn money and not depend on a man to take care of me in the way my mother has had to."

"I am finally free."

"There is strength in silence."

"I am not the woman I was."

"She understood now what her mother had meant."

"Forgiveness is a luxury."

"I wish I could go back and undo it all."

"I have learned that love is not diminished by time."

"She breathed in the smell of her daughter."

"You are my burden to carry."

"I felt the child flutter inside me."

"You think you are clever, but you are stupid."

"I have no choice in this."

"I am going to break every bone in your body."

"It's an old, old story. But it never gets boring."

"I am like a stone thrown into a still pond. I have already caused ripples."

"Kindness in a cruel world is the rarest flower."

"A woman without a man is a house without a roof."

"To survive is to accept what cannot be changed."

"I am not afraid. I have already been dead for so long."

"A woman's place is in the home, and her worth is measured by her obedience."

"Knowledge is the only freedom they cannot take."

"I am grateful for the life I have lived."

"What they have taken from us is the present. Not the past."

"I will not be afraid."

"A man can take everything from you, but he cannot take your dignity."

"I realized how easy it was for me to hide from the world."