Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason. - Khaled Hosseini

yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.