Nature of Beauty Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“Laila watches Mariam glue strands of yarn onto her doll's head. In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will…

— Khaled Hosseini

“A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that…

— Khaled Hosseini

“It amazed me. Maria had been brought up in this place, and yet she had shone like a kingfisher flickering across the water. Perhaps…

— Alex Reeve

“Maria was not permitted to walk in the garden; but sometimes, from her window, she turned her eyes from the gloomy walls, in which…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Tempestuous in her sorrow, the wind unrestrained squalls, as from charcoal clouds above, tears from heaven begin to fall.”

— Michelle Connor

“Laila remembered how Mammy had dropped to the ground, how she’d screamed, torn at her hair. But Laila couldn’t even manage that. She could…

— Khaled Hosseini

“She saw herself alone, alive and doomed, strong and helpless, passing in a line of women, her mother before her, the child Lucy, behind,…

— Enid Bagnold

“You know, she's really just a figurehead off an old ship, but the people needed comfort and rescue, so when they looked at it,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The people who had once dwelled within these lands had not met easy or pleasant ends. She could feel their pain even now, whispering…

— Sarah J. Maas

“She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with…

— Honoré de Balzac

“When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a…

— Osamu Dazai

“Like a great bog humanity swamped her, and she sank in, weak at the knees, filled with repulsion and fear of every person she…

— D.H. Lawrence