it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the deep sorrow a mother feels when her child is lost or in pain, a sound that signifies immeasurable grief.
In this quote, Khaled Hosseini captures the profound emotional pain of a mother experiencing loss or sorrow for her child. The 'wailing of a mother' symbolizes an intense, heart-wrenching expression of despair that is both personal and universally understood. The prayer to Allah highlights a deep wish for protection from such a devastating experience, emphasizing the significant bond between a mother and child.
In practice
In a speech addressing the importance of family bonds, one might reference this quote to emphasize a mother's love and suffering.
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
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And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be β or no, already she was like that too; she was one of them, her body the same, identical, merged with that other flesh that choked the air in the flowered room with its sweet organic scent; she felt suffocated by this thick sargasso-sea of femininity.
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?
That first year I was doing 'Grey's,' I didn't know it was possible to fire the creator of a show off their own show, so I didn't behave like somebody who was afraid of being fired.
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union
Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.
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