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
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.
She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.
Asking women to respect themselves in order to βearnβ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didnβt adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.
Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
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