Laila Quotes

“You’re not going to cry, are you?
- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What good is it, Laila jo?’ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq’s, for her children’s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Nine-year-old Laila rose from bed, as she did most mornings, hungry for the sight of her friend Tariq. This morning, however, she knew there would be no Tariq sighting.

- How long will you be gone? - She’d asked when Tariq had told her that his parents were
taking him south, to the city of Ghazni, to visit his paternal uncle.
- Thirteen days
- Thirteen days?
- It’s not so long. You’re making a face, Laila.
- I am not.
- You’re not going to cry, are you?
- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.

She’d kicked at his shin, not his artificial but his real one, and he’d playfully whacked
the back of her head.
Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which Tariq’s father sometimes played old Pashto songs, time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq’s absence or presence.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Whatever you dream of, there will be fulfillment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Perhaps,” he said, his voice low. He trailed his hand up her thigh. “All goddesses are just beliefs draped on the scaffolding of ideas. I can’t touch what’s not real.” Séverin looked up at her. His pupils were blown out. “But I can worship it all the same.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

“I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a comatose state. As a sequence of events around me unfolded, I struggled to understand who I was, whose child I was and whether I would ever find a way home.”
― Diyar Harraz, Like The Starlings

“The only rules to follow were instincts and color palettes.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.”
― Diyar Harraz, Like The Starlings

“The only place you’ll find a map of Blackcliff,” a raspy voice intrudes, “is in the Commandant’s head. And I don’t think you want to go rummaging around in there.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Adversity is awakening of spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“You are the greatest wife of all times and I love you so much more’ said my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“It was bittersweet and lovely how this thing called family could make you feel belonged, wanted and complete.”
― Diyar Harraz, Like The Starlings

“I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me.”
― Diyar Harraz, Like The Starlings

“As for you Walter Granden, get out of The Willoughby Palace once and for all, and don't come back ever again.”
― Sylvie Jones

“You heard me, Laila. He broke up with Meri, and now, wants me back. I told him to go fuck himself.”
She smiles at me with pride. “That’s my bitch.” We click our bottles and swig a large mouthful.”
― Dora Sky, Delicious

“The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Prayer is a spiritual act.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I will serve with all my might.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Dwell on the beauty of sacred-existence.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“It feels good read but greater to write.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I could just felt the twinge of resentment with her being there, where my mother was supposed to be. What right did she have, to replace that place?”
― Diyar Harraz, Like The Starlings

“The compulsion to daydream was irresistible and a source of great comfort to Laila as it to anyone who feels like they don't fit in.”
― Emma Eggleston, Escape

“And I wrote you."
"You did?"
"Oh, volumes," he said. "Your friend Rumi would have envied my production." Then he laughed again, uproariously this time, as though he was both startled at his own boldness and embarrassed by what he let on.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns