She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.
Khaled Hosseinii want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.
Khaled HosseiniIโll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and Iโll have one of my fits. Youโll see, Iโll swallow my tongue and die. Donโt leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. Iโll die if you go.
Khaled HosseiniThe ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.
Khaled Hosseini