A Thousand Splendid Suns

"There is something honorable in choosing your own end."

"This is not your battle to fight."

"You deserve better than this life."

"The wrong answer is to accept, is to resign yourself to it."

"There is a way to be a good person again."

"I want to die as myself."

"Don't you dare hurt her anymore than you have already."

"Women like us...we endure."

"I am like a prisoner in this house, but without the dignity of being jailed."

"There is no shame in what happened to you."

"You're going to have to be hard. Strong. You'll have to think of yourself as a body protecting a candle from the wind."

"Do you know what your father used to call you? His little flower."

"I am the woman of this house, not you."

"It's a special thing, the way Afghans do it."

"She would live for them now."

"But she was not alone anymore."

"She would not be a victim."

"He was her father but not her family."

"She would survive this. She had survived worse."

"She was a harami. She had always been one."

"She would not let him break her."

"But there was always a way to fight back."

"This was the condition of her life now."

"She loved him too. God forgive her, she did."

"She would make choices. She would live her own life."

"This is how it is done. This is how one is supposed to live."

"The difference between you and me is that you think there is still time."

"She would not allow him to make her feel ashamed."

"I am that version of her. I am the vessel in which her hopes have been entrusted."

"We women are not creatures of this earth."