A Thousand Splendid Suns

"Hope deferred makes the heart weary."

"The voice within cannot be permanently silenced."

"She learns that freedom is an internal state."

"Acceptance is not surrender."

"To flee is to preserve something precious within you."

"Hope is a dangerous thing."

"A woman without a man is a shadow."

"Forgiveness can only come from within."

"What is the use of education without freedom?"

"The only reward for obedience is more demands."

"There is no honor in pity."

"It always is the ones in the middle that suffer the most."

"Forgiveness is a luxury that women like us cannot afford."

"It is a terrible thing to love someone, I think. There is nothing worse."

"Perhaps this is just a woman's lot, to live with ghosts."

"There is no shame in what I'm doing. There is only shame in how I was born."

"Choices made under duress are still choices."

"Freedom begins in the mind."

"The past cannot be rewritten, only accepted."

"The future is uncertain, but the present is real."

"Kindness is a form of resistance."

"We are bound by invisible threads we cannot cut."

"There is a certain dignity in despair."

"Forgiveness is a luxury we cannot afford."

"A child born of rape is still a child."

"What is the use of education if it teaches you nothing of value?"

"I am content being your wife, but I will not be happy."

"The world has no use for girls like us."

"We are not so different, you and I."

"I have lived a life of unhappiness, but now I choose otherwise."