She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.
Khaled HosseiniAfghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
Khaled Hosseini