Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep sense of longing and heartache due to the absence of a loved one.
In this poignant quote, Khaled Hosseini conveys the overwhelming emotional turmoil experienced when separated from someone cherished. The imagery of time passing and the intense physical reaction of feeling unable to breathe illustrates the profound impact that love and loss can have on an individual, highlighting the way such emotional experiences can leave one feeling weak and desperate.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a memorial service to express the deep sense of loss felt.
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
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
The whole idea is to look at the television camera and present as much love as you possibly could to a person who might feel that he or she needs it.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.
On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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