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Tariq (meeting Laila after ten years): It's good to see you, Laila.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.
The Kite Runner (2003)
I am tired and I am dying, and I want to be merciful. I want to forgive you. But when God summons me and says, But it wasn't for you to forgive, Mullah, what shall I say?
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
The Kite Runner (2003)
Maybe it was senseless to want to be near a person so badly here in a country where bullets had shredded her own brothers to pieces. But all Laila had to do was picture Tariq going at Khadim with his leg and then nothing in the world seemed more sensible to her.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Is this about you and Hassan? I know there's something going on between you two, but whatever it is, you have to deal with it, not me. I'm staying out of it.
The Kite Runner (2003)
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. -Nana
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
The Kite Runner (2003)
I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran.
The Kite Runner (2003)
But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home.
The Kite Runner (2003)
Hassan's not going anywhere. He's staying right here with us, where he belongs. This is his home and we're his family. Don't you ever ask me that question again!
The Kite Runner (2003)
What good is it? All this, what good is it? -Mariam
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another. Macedonians. Sassanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
It was Homaira and me against the world. ... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
The Kite Runner (2003)
Their sons go out to nightclubs looking for meat and get their girlfriends pregnant, they have kids out of wedlock and no one says a goddamn thing. Oh, they're just men having fun! I make one mistake and suddenly everyone is talking nang and namoos, and I have to have my face rubbed in it for the rest of my life.
The Kite Runner (2003)
And so it was that, about a week later, we crossed a strip of warm, black tarmac and I brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.
The Kite Runner (2003)
Laila: Tell your secrets to the wind but don't blame it for telling the trees.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Mariam: I can't believe what you are now, if you were a Benz before.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Hasina: That's because you have a beard, my dear.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
And I wrote to you, Laila. Volumes. -
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)