“Outside mockingbirds are slinging blithely, and once in a while, when songsters take flight, Mariam can see their wings catching the phosphorescent blue of moonlight beaming through the clouds. And though her throat is parched with thirst, and her feet burn with the pain of pins and needles, it is a long time before Mariam gently frees her finger from the baby’s grip and gets up.”
page 218

“It’s not so much what he says, the blatant lies, the contrived empathy, or even the fact that he has not raised a hand to her, Mariam, since he had dug the girl out from under those bricks. It is the staged delivery. Like a performance. An attempt on his part, both sly and pathetic, to impress. To charm. And suddenly, Mariam knows that her suspicions are right. She understands with a dread that is a blinding whack to the side of her head that what she is witnessing is nothing less than a courtship.” page 191

this is the point where mariam realized rasheed is trying to win lailas hand in marriage.

this quote is about rasheed, she is sad now, but she knows that there will be positive outcomes and she will be okay.

why did laila not want to go to Afghanistan just because shed miss tariq? also, why does laila not express that she actually likes him and wants to be with him in the future.

Giti has a crush on some guy and automatically wants to marry him, is this part of their culture? why do they just marry people that they dont know can even make them happy?

do you think laila and tariqs level of intimacy is real? do you think its just a crush? are they genuinely in love?

"Its an interesting eye color, Aziza. Don't you think? It's neither yours nor mine." chapter 38 page 282

What is Rasheed opinion on the Taliban

why is mariam still nice towards laila even though she doesn'tm like her?

"Have I married a pair of statues? Go on, Mariam, gap bezan, say something to her. Where re your manners?" Chapter 31 page 222

"Why have you pinned your heart to an old, ugly hag like me?” Mariam would murmur into Aziza’s hair. “Huh? I am nobody, don’t you see? A dehati. What have I got to give you?”Chapter 35 page 252

How does Rasheed hide Mariam and not Laila?

Rasheed acts like he is boss now and he has more power over them. He is acting like he wants the household to all get along when he really does not care about them.

This is significant because it marks the beginning of Rasheed's suspicion.

in this moment mariam is bonding with lailas baby, she is being so inspired by everything and noticing everything and giving it a positive connotation so this quote is important

"There would come a day, in fact, years later, when Laila would no longer bewail his loss. Or not as relentlessly; not nearly. There would come a day when the details of his face would begin to slip from memory’s grip"

In this quote it made me think that she still does consider herself a bastard person and she doesn't think she has self worth.